The company founded by Steve Jobs, Apple, has presented the results of the first quarter of its fiscal year of 2025, which have left investors without knowing very well how to react. The company has broken sales and benefits expectations, but The ‘small print’ confirms two of the greatest fears of analysts: iPhone 16 sales have stayed below expected, being the first time it happens since 2023; And the firm continues to bleed in China, one of its star markets, in which it has been suffering a series of increasingly worrying falls.
The firm, a member of the magnificent seven, has fulfilled income estimates, beating the benefits. Thus, Apple has registered 124.3 billion dollars in revenue, compared to 124,200 million. On the benefits, the large technological harvested $ 36,330 million, that is, $ 2.40 per share compared to $ 2.35 for participation calculated by analysts. It is an interannual increase in earnings of 8%.
The main disappointment of the brand comes from the hand of iPhone and China. In this sense, the Apple star model has registered global sales of 69,140 million dollars, compared to 71,040 million of estimated dollars. In addition, its commercializations in the Chinese market amounted to 18,510 million dollars, compared to 21,570 million calculated For the market. All this has left investors cold, leading Apple to quote flat in the After Hours.
However, the disappointment of the iPhone has been mitigated by sales of the rest of the products. So, The iPad and the MAC have broken expectationsexceeding them in around $ 1 billion over what is estimated by analysts. Along these lines, income from Apple’s services exceeded market calculations in 200 million dollars, up to 26,340 million. On the other hand, the firm has maintained its dividend in 25 cents per share.
In relation to AI, The launch of Apple Intelligence has been disappointingsince it was not available for the premiere of the iPhone 16. In addition, the key to the improvements of this tool, which are not as attractive as the benefits of applications such as Chatgpt or Gemini, were late, at the end of December. However, Tim Cook, CEO of the company, has gone to the arena to claim that The sales of the iPhone 16 were higher in those markets where the availability of Apple Intelligence arrived on time.
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