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Apple Announces 3rd Quarter Financial Results

Apple today posted their 3rd Quarter 2006 financial results, with revenue of $4.37 billion and a net quarterly profit of $472 million. Compared to year on year of $3.53 billion in revenue and net profit of $320 million.

Apple shipped 1,327,000 Macintosh computers and 8,111,000 iPods during this quarter which represents a 12% growth in Macs and 32% growth in iPods year on year.

  • 75% of Macs sold during the quarter used Intel processors.
  • 2nd highest quarterly sales and earnings in Apple's history
  • International sales accounted for 39 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
  • iPod continued to earn a US market share of over 75 percent
  • Desktops: 614,000, down 14% from previous quarter
  • Portables: 498,000, up 60% from previous quarter
  • iPods: 8,526,000

Overview of conference call will follow.