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Jeff Campbell
04-25-2012, 07:55 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/24/apple_profits_surge_94_on_sales_of_351m_iphones_118m_ipads.html' target='_blank'>http://www.appleinsider.com/article...118m_ipads.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple on Tuesday announced its best-ever second fiscal quarter, as the company saw its earnings rise 94 percent to $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share, on quarterly revenue of $39.19 billion."</em></p><p><img height="300" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/lpt/auto/1294075366.usr105634.jpg" style="margin-left: 100px; margin-right: 100px;" width="400" /></p><p>When you compare it to year ago numbers of $24.7 billion revenue and profits of $6.0 billion, it is impressive. And a record 2nd quarter results for Apple. Also impressive was the number of iPhones sold, namely 35.1 million of them which is growth of 88 percent from a year ago. iPad? Also up in numbers with 11.8 million sold, a paltry 151% increase over the same period last year. You can listen to the meeting <a href="http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/124ijobnawdvohb24/event/index.html" target="_blank">via Apple</a>, and if you are curious what the analysts thing, have a look <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/25/wall_street_q2_earnings_prove_apple_is_beginning_international_growth_story.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>