The quarter’s results included a $5 million net favorable impact from non-recurring items, including an after-tax gain of $101 million resulting from the sale of approximately five million shares of ARM Holdings plc., a net restructuring charge of $6 million, and a one-time charge for a special executive bonus of $90 million. Without non-recurring items, the Company’s net profit for the quarter would have been $178 million, up 45 percent from the year-ago-quarter, and earnings per diluted share would have been $1.00, up 28 percent from the year-ago quarter.
Sales of 1,377,000 systems including over 700,000 iMac™ consumer desktops and 235,000 iBook™ consumer portables, drove unit growth of 46 percent year-over-year, outpacing the industry average. IDC is currently forecasting total worldwide industry unit growth at 17 percent for the December quarter compared with the year-ago quarter.
“We are delighted that Apple is delivering strong growth on every front—revenues, profits and units—and in particular that our unit growth last quarter was 2.5 times higher than the industry average, which leads directly to market share growth,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Apple also continues to deliver the best asset management in the industry, ending the quarter with less than one day of inventory.”
“Strong earnings combined with superb operational efficiency resulted in positive cash flow from operations of $373 million,” said Fred Anderson, Apple’s CFO. “Apple finished the quarter with over $3.6 billion in cash and short-term investments, and over $5 billion if the Company’s investments in ARM and Akamai Technologies, Inc. are included.”
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