Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner saying new merchandise within the firm’s April 20, 2021, livestream.
Nathan Mattise
Apple released its Q2 2021 earnings report back to traders at this time after the bell, and it was one other big yr—so big, the truth is, that traders are involved it is not sustainable because the world enters a brand new, later part of the pandemic.
Income for the quarter was $89.58 billion, a document for the March quarter, and up 54 p.c year-over-year. The quantity surpassed traders’ and analysts’ predictions and expectations main as much as the report. Gross margin was 42.5 p.c.
Apple reported double-digit development in each product class. Mac and iPad income have been up 70.1 p.c and 78.9 p.c from final yr ($9.10 billion and $7.8 billion, respectively), and the iPhone was up 65.5 p.c (to $47.94 billion). Each Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner and analysts have known as the iPhone 12 launch a “tremendous cycle,” by which adoption, upgrades, and gross sales are significantly sturdy attributable to numerous components.
As for providers, that enterprise phase noticed 26.7 p.c development year-over-year (to $16.9 billion), with an all-time income document of $16.9 billion—up 27 p.c over a yr in the past. “Different Merchandise,” which most notably contains wearables just like the Apple Watch and AirPods, noticed 24 p.c development, reaching $7.83 billion in income.
On a name with traders, Apple govt Tim Cook dinner and others from the corporate fielded questions in regards to the sustainability of this type of income and development in mild of a partial transition out of a pandemic lockdown mindset in some areas.
Analysts and Apple itself have each mentioned that the corporate’s merchandise have thrived amidst the pandemic. For instance, Mac gross sales have gone up partially due to an increase in distant work and faculty, although the introduction of the M1 chip final fall additionally seemingly performed a component.
Additional, semiconductor provide shortages could threaten the corporate’s capability to fulfill demand in coming quarters.
The Apple reps acknowledged that it is troublesome to foretell the place issues will go from right here, and once more declined to offer steering for the subsequent quarter. (They haven’t performed so because the world pandemic started.)
Past that, Cook dinner spent a lot of his time on the decision both recapping the product and providers bulletins from the corporate’s April 20 occasion, or speaking up Apple’s numerous inexperienced initiatives.
Apple inventory rose nearly 4 p.c in after-hours buying and selling following the decision, however has slipped down to simply 2 p.c over the day’s earlier worth as of this writing.
