The most valuable publicly traded u. S. Company reported a blowout quarter selling more than 61 million iphones in just the first three months of the year. Proving to investors that its smartphone sales are still going very strong. Here are the numbers and there are a lot of them. Apple reported a 33 increase in its quarterly profit over a year ago. It pulled in 2. 33 a share, that was 17 cents better than estimates. E up 27 . Coming in at an astonishing 58 billion, easily surpassing expectations there and apple is going to give back more to shareholders increasing its dividend 11 . Boosting its Share Repurchase program by 50 billion to a total of 140 billion and pledging to return a total of 200 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends by 2017. And how about for it . It now stands at 194 billion and investors initially sent shares to a new high in after hours trading. Josh lipton now with more on apples earnings and what tim cook told him earlie reporter the big number i
Blowout quarter selling more than 61 million iphones in just the first three months of the year. Proving to investors that its smartphone sales are still going very strong. Here are the numbers and there are a lot of them. Apple reported a 33 increase in its quarterly profit over a year ago. It pulled in 2. 33 a share, that was 17 cents better than estimates. E up 27 . Coming in at an astonishing 58 billion, easily surpassing expectations there and apple is going to give back more to shareholders increasing its dividend 11 . Boosting its Share Repurchase program by 50 billion to a total of 140 billion and pledging to return a total of 200 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends by 2017. And how about for it . It now stands at 194 billion and investors initially sent shares to a new high in after hours trading. Josh lipton now with more on apples earnings and what tim cook told him earlie reporter the big number in apples latest Earnings Report 61. 2 million. That is the
Than 61 million iphones in just the first three months of the year. Proving to investors that its smartphone sales are still going very strong. Here are the numbers and there are a lot of them. Apple reported a 33 increase in its quarterly profit over a year ago. It pulled in 2. 33 a share, that was 17 cents better than estimates. E up 27 . Coming in at an astonishing 58 billion, easily surpassing expectations there and apple is going to give back more to shareholders increasing its dividend 11 . Boosting its Share Repurchase program by 50 billion to a total of 140 billion and pledging to return a total of 200 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends by 2017. And how about for it . It now stands at 194 billion and investors initially sent shares to a new high in after hours trading. Josh lipton now with more on apples earnings and what tim cook told him earlie reporter the big number in apples latest Earnings Report 61. 2 million. That is the number of iphones that apple
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