Apple beats the Street with all-time fourth quarter revenue

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. The company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year over year when excluding the one-time charge recognized during the fourth quarter of 2024 related to the impact of the reversal of the European General Court’s State Aid decision.
“Today Apple is reporting a new September quarter revenue record of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent from a year ago,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “During the quarter, we were excited to announce our best products yet, with the all-new iPhone 16 lineup, Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4, and remarkable features for hearing health and sleep apnea detection. And this week, we released our first set of features for Apple Intelligence, which sets a new standard for privacy in AI and supercharges our lineup heading into the holiday season.”
“Our record business performance during the September quarter drove nearly $27 billion in operating cash flow, allowing us to return over $29 billion to our shareholders,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO, in a statement. “We are very pleased that our active installed base of devices reached a new all-time high across all products and all geographic segments, thanks to our high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty.”
Net sales by category:
• iPhone: $46.222 billion (vs. $43.805 billion YoY)
• Mac: $7.744 billion (vs. $7.614 billion YoY)
• iPad: $6.950 billion (vs. 6.443 billion YoY)
• Wearables, Home and Accessories: $9.042 billion (vs. $9.322 billion YoY)
• Services: $24.930 billion (vs. $22.314 billion YoY)
Apple’s board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.25 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on November 14, 2024 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 11, 2024.
Apple will provide live streaming of its Q4 2024 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PT on October 31, 2024 at apple.com/investor/earnings-call. The webcast will be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.
According to analysts estimates from FactSet, prior to earnings, Apple was expected to post earnings per share (EPS) of $1.60 on revenue of $94.5 billion. Apple’s previous all-time record for fiscal Q4 was set in fiscal Q222 at $90.1 billion (Q423 revenue came in at $89.5 billion).
Apple versus LSEG consensus estimates for Q424:
• EPS: $1.64, adjusted, versus $1.60 estimated
• Revenue: $94.93 billion vs. $94.58 billion estimated
• iPhone revenue: $46.222 billion vs. $45.47 billion estimated
• Mac revenue: $7.744 billion vs. $7.82 billion estimated
• iPad revenue: $6.950 billion vs. $7.09 billion estimated
• Wearables, Home and Accessories:: $9.042 billion vs. $9.21 billion estimated
• Services revenue: $24.930 billion vs. $25.28 billion estimated
• Gross margin: 46.2% vs. 46.0% estimated
MacDailyNews Take: Sales of the iPhone 15 were “stronger than 14 in the year-ago quarter, and 16 was stronger than 15,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC’s Steve Kovach.

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