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“profit is a better metric to compare rather than revenue since it takes moving hardware out of the picture. Anyone have those details?” For the quarter that e

“profit is a better metric to compare rather than revenue since it takes moving hardware out of the picture. Anyone have those details?” For the quarter that ended March 31: Microsoft, $5.11 billion [1] Apple, $11.6 billion [2] For the quarter that ended June 30: Microsoft, $0.19 billion [3] Apple, $8.8 billion [4] [1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/apr12/04-19fy12Q3earningsPR.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/apr12/04-19fy... [2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/04/24Apple-Reports-Second-Quarter-Results.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/04/24Apple-Reports-Seco... [3] http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/fy12/Q4/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... [4] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/07/24Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/07/24Apple-Reports-Thir...

cooldeal 14y ago
Anyone know how much of Apple's profit is from the iPhone(the original point of comparison in the article)?
- saurik 14y ago
  http://investor.apple.com/common/download/download.cfm?companyid=AAPL&fileid=585701&filekey=beacb369-cb95-4950-acf4-4fbfa3569ec6&filename=Q3_2012_Form_10-Q_As-Filed_.pdf http://investor.apple.com/common/download/download.cfm?compa... Check out page 26, which gives you a good breakdown of their various divisions. (Although, I don't remember if it is net or gross now, and I'm on an iPhone so it is difficult to go back and check; Apple makes about $170 margin on an iPhone, however, for conversion, so maybe 30%.)
6ren 14y ago
That $0.19 billion (at your [3]) becomes $6.93 billion, when adjusted for one-off charges (including $6.19 billion impairment of goodwill). Otherwise, it looks like a disaster for MS.
- vampirechicken 14y ago
  The one-ff charges don't count? What number is on the tax forms?

cooldeal 14y ago

Anyone know how much of Apple's profit is from the iPhone(the original point of comparison in the article)?

saurik 14y ago
http://investor.apple.com/common/download/download.cfm?companyid=AAPL&fileid=585701&filekey=beacb369-cb95-4950-acf4-4fbfa3569ec6&filename=Q3_2012_Form_10-Q_As-Filed_.pdf http://investor.apple.com/common/download/download.cfm?compa... Check out page 26, which gives you a good breakdown of their various divisions. (Although, I don't remember if it is net or gross now, and I'm on an iPhone so it is difficult to go back and check; Apple makes about $170 margin on an iPhone, however, for conversion, so maybe 30%.)

6ren 14y ago

That $0.19 billion (at your [3]) becomes $6.93 billion, when adjusted for one-off charges (including $6.19 billion impairment of goodwill). Otherwise, it looks like a disaster for MS.

vampirechicken 14y ago
The one-ff charges don't count? What number is on the tax forms?