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Sales of Apple’s iPhone rebounded last quarter, helping the world’s most valuable company top earnings estimates and weather an industrywide downturn that has battered much of its product lineup.
Overall revenue amounted to US$94.8 billion in the fiscal second quarter, according to a statement on Thursday (May 4), exceeding the US$92.6 billion analysts predicted.
As expected, Apple announced plans for US$90 billion in stock repurchases – the same as last year’s plan.
The company also raised its quarterly dividend 4 per cent to 24 US cents a share.
Though the performance was better than expected, it marked two straight quarters of sales declines – a first for Apple since the pandemic began.
Earnings, meanwhile, were unchanged from a year earlier, at US$1.52 a share. That compared with an average estimate of US$1.43 a share.
Source: Phillips
