They're a publicly-traded company. You can get their statements. That's correct. It's roughly 20% profit on a cellphone. Up and down year to year.
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iPhone XS Max Component Costs Estimated at $453 [Updated]
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They're a publicly-traded company. You can get their statements. That's correct. It's roughly 20% profit on a cellphone. Up and down year to year.
I didn't ask for pity for a trillion dollar tax cheat, I just elaborated on points that people in these forums seem to never consider.
I've never seen them explicitly state the profit per unit on each iPhone. I don't buy it.
Apple averages around 20% net profit after taxes for the company as a whole.
They don’t break out profit for their various product segments, i.e. Mac, iPhone, iPad, Other (Watch, HomePod, AirPod, AppleTV, Beats, etc.) and Services.
iPhone is roughly half their sales. It could be that the other half has net profit of 30% and iPhone is 10%, for a 20% average. Or maybe iPhone is 30% and everything else is 10%, again averaging 20%.
More likely, iPhone net profit is within a few percentage points of the company average.
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Yea, that makes sense. I knew they didn't break it out for the iPhone. That's the number I would be interested in seeing.
and record profits next Apple's Quarterly Report. Big stock options for Tim Cook.
Basic reading comprehension should give you an answer to this, but I'll oblige. Stating there's much more that goes into the cost of the phone than just the parts is the truth, but that doesn't imply I WANT to pay for a more expensive phone. Nor would I. The two are not mutually exclusive. You know who designs those parts? Employees do. Where do you think the money comes from that Apple uses to pay its employees? From selling their products. If they're selling a product exactly at face value of the parts, there's no profit to pay their employees. It's an extremely simple concept, so hopefully I've broken it down enough for you to understand.
Then don't buy an iPhone? You don't get to say where the money goes. And its it's obvious you don't know how companies work.
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So what products are they making really small margins on?
What are you talking about, honestly?Permabear or permabull does not matter. What matters is that most people are gambling on the stock market, and when you gamble my dear friend, eventually you lose. Just ask people in 1987, 2000, 2008. And especially the Japanese, whos stock market still didnt recover to its highest point. Historically, very few people get to keep their gains, and most of those very few are insiders. But personally i dont care, everyone is free to do as they please. What does piss me off is that we the people had to bail out the banks in 2008, who basically doubled down on bad behavior which will cause the same results. But as i said, this time is different right?
You literally can NOT lose in the stock market if you own good stocks and buy and hold them over a long period. Can't lose. Notice how the market is at ALL TIME highs? This means if you bought at ANY time and did not sell like the idiots tell you to in times of panic, you'd be richer.
Do you think Warren Buffett is worth $80B because you eventually lose in the stock market?
Stocks have outperformed EVERY asset in existence. Bonds, Gold, real estate, doesn't matter. Stocks over the long term will make you wealthy. The average annual return of the S&P 500 for the last 90 years is ~10%. If you invested $10,000 in 1942, you'd have $51,000,000 today.
If you bought Gold, you'd have $400,000.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/war...-in-1942-would-be-worth-51-million-today.html
1987, 2000, and 2008 were GREAT buying opportunities. The only way you lost is if you sold. I made tons of money buying stocks I still hold in 2008. I would love for stocks to go down again so I can buy even more shares.
If you're worried about bankruptcy, buy an S&P 500 index. You'll do great and it can't go to $0. When it goes down, buy more. Never fails.
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Exactly. But, you will be ridiculed in this thread if you suggest Apple is making a profit.
No, you'll be ridiculed if you suggest they have over 100% markup on the iPhone. And you should, because that's ridiculous.
On the $1,250 256GB XS Max, Apple would net about $250 in after tax profit if they make their company-wide average (approx 20%). That means that in addition to the component costs the article puts at about $450, there’s another $550 of additional costs that also need to be covered before Apple makes any profit at all.
Those who insist Apple makes an $800 profit on that iPhone need to be educated, not ridiculed
I think people just want to point out that component costs aren’t all that goes into a products profit margin, which I understand. Apple products are worth their costs in my eyes. I’m happy to pay a certain cost of I feel the value is there.
the profit isnt as large as i thought it was nevertheless roughly 180 percent profit is pretty good.
Question. do you all think apple would sell twice as many at 899.99 vs selling them at 1249?
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Question. do you all think apple would sell twice as many at 899.99 vs selling them at 1249?
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think about returns, swap outs etc.. The cost of maintaining a profit can add up very quickly.
Prices continue to go up, so does what your getting for your money. You get a lot more per dollar spent on a Xs Max than you got per dollar on the original iPhone. I still have one.
Sure. What does that have do with what I posted? Do you have something that says they make 20% profit per iPhone?
There is no 180% profit, the $450 mentioned in the article is just the portion of the overall cost attributable to the parts. Apple makes about 20% net profit after taxes, company-wide. So realize there’s another $550 per unit to cover costs other than components.
Considering that Apple’s cost might be $1,000, they could be going from making a $250 net profit per unit to losing $100 on each 256GB XS Max sold—and trying to make it up on volume lol.
In my observation Apple implementation technologies when they see some innovation to it. Touch ID, Face ID, air power, neural engine used as some examples. They just don’t throw technology in for internet bragging rights.