Apple Reports 3Q 2025 Results: $23.4B Profit on $94B Revenue

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None of us have much of an idea what is going on in their R&D. I am sure most of us would be quite surprised at the things in the incubation stage. No matter how good your engineers and design people are it can take years to even figure out if an idea can yield a viable product let alone bring it to market, especially if it requires technology even invented yet let alone perfected enough to be in a consumer product.

It surprises me how often people miss this post – innovation takes time and luck.

 

[AAPLbuyback]

I studied economics, amongst other things – so your assumption is invalid. Tariffs are a government-imposed cost on producers, and all costs eventually affect consumers in some form. It’s a de facto sales tax. Your logic is flawed on the second point. If you raise costs on importers by 30%, domestic producers will also increase prices to increase profit, as their competition at the original price point has just diminished. There’s nothing political about the effect, it’s just economics 101.

That isn’t true. Competitors don’t all increase prices in unison because of competition. Also, it hasn’t happened or the data would show it has. Inflation is still well below tariff levels. Even the American manufacturers don’t have the pricing power to increase prices 30%. That isn’t how prices work.

Again, get out of your theory box and look at the numbers. Consumers absolutely do not pay all the tariffs. They may pay some in some cases but not all in all cases or even close to it.

Just because you “studied economics and other things” doesn’t make my analysis invalid. I have an MBA from Wharton. Who cares?

If tariffs did what you said, we’d have a fast and linear increase to CPI, which didn’t happen and hasn’t happened. Which was predictable. Toyota literally admitted it ate almost all the tariffs and GM said it lost money to stay competitive on cars they import from Mexico and Canada.

 

[BuddyTronic]

If it were good then either the stock growth or the dividends would be working for shareholders. When i compare to Microsoft, for instance, Apple have lagged badly on both for many years. Not only that but Apple itself is less diversified than Microsoft, so far more of a risk with your life savings. If all that wasn’t enough, Apple has more legal battles in more locales, meaning their warchest and their market could be taken from them/you. They’ve lost every battle in the EU and continue to do so, I’d be worried if I had more than a little invested.
I do buy every time Apple crashes hard, it usually bounces back and I often double my money, but consistent growth it certainly isn’t.

The EU legal battles did they amount to a hill of beans really? 10 million or $50 million fines don’t matter much to Apple do they?

Apple is still making record revenue quarterly reports

Overall, I think there is indeed consistent growth, but it’s just not the 20% plus growth. A lot of people seem to be seeking.

Going all in on Apple worked for me, but yes, I’m looking to see if the story changes.