Apple Reports 4Q 2021 Results: $20.6B Profit on $83.4B Revenue

[triton100]

The stock always goes down when Apple's profits go up. I've never understood that, but the stocks always recover. I'm amazed at how quickly the services sector has grown. They're certainly doing a decent job of shrinking their reliance on the iPhone.

Because Wall Street analysts are dumb oh and they get paid for being dumb.

 

[warriors2017]

The stock always goes down when Apple's profits go up. I've never understood that, but the stocks always recover. I'm amazed at how quickly the services sector has grown. They're certainly doing a decent job of shrinking their reliance on the iPhone.

It's called profit taking. Selling drives down stock prices.

 

[triton100]

Sounds like people are sick of the notch and it shows in the revenues.

With Google’s Pixel 6 Pro arriving on the scene and next Samsung due in January I’m a bit worried for Apple…

Is this sarcasm cos if not it’s baffling how far removed and out of touch with reality you are

 

[AgeOfSpiracles]

I think the iPods fall into the wearable and accessories category. The biggest piece of that is probably Apple Watch.

My bad, I mistook the color for Services for the iPod on the first chart. I now realize that the iPod sliver vanished in 2015.

 

[NIKKG]

Stuff is getting too expensive, food, gas, tech, cars, utilities. The middle class is tapped out. A third of the population is on foodstamps. What did they expect will eventually happen?

 

[sinsin07]

Sounds like people are sick of the notch and it shows in the revenues.

With Google’s Pixel 6 Pro arriving on the scene and next Samsung due in January I’m a bit worried for Apple…

Do you do stand up, cause this is funny.

 

[DanTSX]

The stock is down nearly five per net already. Wouldn’t celebrate too early

I'd celebrate that the stock is on sale by 5%.

Dividends baby!?️‍♀️

 

[Abazigal]

Stuff is getting too expensive, food, gas, tech, cars, utilities. The middle class is tapped out. A third of the population is on foodstamps. What did they expect will eventually happen?

The lower than expected earnings was (reportedly) due to supply not meeting demand, not because people aren’t buying their products. What this simply means is that revenue will likely end up getting deferred to next quarter.

 

[thehappycoder]

Polishing cloth sales will boom in Q4 and will become its own revenue category!

 

[BuddyTronic]

Sounds like people are sick of the notch and it shows in the revenues.

With Google’s Pixel 6 Pro arriving on the scene and next Samsung due in January I’m a bit worried for Apple…

Notch sales will be in the next quarter

 

[triton100]

I'd celebrate that the stock is on sale by 5%.

Dividends baby!?️‍♀️

I like your positive attitude. Keep it up

 

[lysingur]

Chip shortage is here to stay and will likely be this way till 2024. Working from home is making many people pay more attention to their health (wearables) and quality of life (smart appliances). Apple is doing comparatively well considering the shortage is worldwide and they're still pushing out new products on schedule.

 

[Rizzm]

Just about 25% profit margins? Without any comparison to industry norms, this strikes me as insanely high. Good for them I guess.

 

[BuddyTronic]

Stuff is getting too expensive, food, gas, tech, cars, utilities. The middle class is tapped out. A third of the population is on foodstamps. What did they expect will eventually happen?

Well no - despite the high costs of living, it remains popular.

Year over year comparisons are good. Look at the chart in this article - biggest Q4 revenue ever. AAPL stock is down today because the street numbers were not soundly beaten. Last quarter they beat by 10 billion or something and um… stock also dropped ? ! Go figure. It’s all ok


Booya Apple!

 

[wlev]

The constant notch comments... are you people for real?! The comments aren't funny, they're not witty. You're just noise. Get the eff over it.

 

[Michael Scrip]

With Google’s Pixel 6 Pro arriving on the scene and next Samsung due in January I’m a bit worried for Apple…

Are you worried?

Apple has sold more phones in a week... than Google sells Pixels in an entire year. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are excellent phones... but they're simply not gonna be major players.

And while Samsung sells more phones than Apple overall... it's because of their cheaper A-series models. $150-$300 range.

Samsung's flagship S-series has actually been in trouble over the last few years. The S21 didn't sell as well as the S20... the S20 didn't sell as well as the S10... etc.

So I don't think Google Pixel 6 or Samsung S22 will harm Apple's abilities to sell iPhones. If anything... it will be other factors... including supply problems or overall economic conditions. But we'll have to see.

Next quarter we should know more about how well the iPhone 13 is doing. I suspect it will do well.

 

[827538]

The stock always goes down when Apple's profits go up. I've never understood that, but the stocks always recover. I'm amazed at how quickly the services sector has grown. They're certainly doing a decent job of shrinking their reliance on the iPhone.

Rises in the run up to quarterly reports then dips and recovers on news. Just ignore day to day trading and focus on the YoY returns.

The Apple juggernaut is quite something. I expect the iPhone 13 and new Macs to push sales to new records. Shame they didn't release a high end Mini and iMac with a redesigned Air, that would really have sent sales soaring.

Having bought a 13 Pro, 3rd Gen AirPods, and a 14" MacBook Pro over the last month I am happy holding onto my Apple stock. These devices are a step above everything that's come before.

 

[Moonlight]

Sounds like people are sick of the notch and it shows in the revenues.

With Google’s Pixel 6 Pro arriving on the scene and next Samsung due in January I’m a bit worried for Apple…

Where does it sound like that? In the record sales of notched products?

 

[Duke24]

iPods still standing firm. ?

 

[now i see it]

Macs have essentially straight lined for the last 10 years or more. Eventually the same thing will happen to all their products.

 

[Rogifan]

Cook said the issue was on the supply side not demand. All that means is sales will be deferred to the next quarter.

 

[CWallace]

Just about 25% profit margins? Without any comparison to industry norms, this strikes me as insanely high. Good for them I guess.

25% is actually probably historically low. So if true, then despite all the claims that "bean counter Cook is squeezing customers for all he can", he has actually been holding the line on ASPs and taking a margin hit rather than raising prices (even more) to hold the line on margins.

Macs have essentially straight lined for the last 10 years or more. Eventually the same thing will happen to all their products.

Jason Snell's charts would disagree with you. Average Mac revenues have risen close to $2 billion over the past 18 months and are closing in on double what they were a decade ago.

 

[ellsworth]

And the stock is down by quite a bit. Sounds like the old days, when great results were reported, the stock went downhill.

Yah. It's crazy. It dropped a little under 4%/ -$6.00 in after hours trading. Time to stock up on the dip while you can.

 

[macdos]

Well, pandemic is over… maybe not in America and Brazil, but in the rest of the world. So the inflated 2021 result will leave a brutal hangover in 2022, with poor results. The end is nigh. Sell your AAPL tocks while you can.

 

[Jetscreamer]

Wall Street analyst with unrealistic expectation in a pandemic era. I wonder how many corporation would love to have Apples’ “poor” performance?