CUPERTINO, California—October 19, 2009—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent, up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago quarter.

October 19th, 2009 Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 1:39 pmCategories:AppleTags:Today Apple released earnings result for Q4 ‘09 – and it’s a downturn-defying quarter! Not only is it Apple’s most profitable quarter, the company also saw record Mac and iPhone sales.Here are the details:Revenues of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, working out as $1.82 per diluted share.These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per

The Q4 numbers are in for Apple and they’re good. Quite good. Really good. The company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share. Apple’s own earnings projections for Q4 were $1.23 a share, but they always put them laughably low. Analysts’ projections expected them to be around $1.42 a share, but some were looking for numbers as high as $1.60 a share. Apple beat all of those, easily. Apple sold 3.05 million Macs in the quarter, up 17 percent from a year ago.

Not sure if you’ve heard the latest rumors but apparently Veriozon’s CEO, Lowell McAdams has been paying Steve Jobs’ Apple headquarter visits the past few months, apparently because Verizon is working on a CDMA version of the iPhone. This could only mean 2 things, Verizon is teasing customers again or things are pretty bad in AT&T land that Apple is looking for another wireless carrier to become the exclusive carrier of the iPhone.

Apple Q4 2009 Conference Call We’ll be beginning TiPb’s live coverage just before 2pm PT/5pm ET, but Apple has already released their results, and they include 7.4 million iPhones and 10.2 million iPods (they don’t break out numbers for the iPod touch) sold in Q4 2009. We are thrilled to have sold more Macs and iPhones than in any previous quarter, said Steve Jobs, Apples CEO. Weve got a very strong lineup for the holiday season and some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010.

The US economy is on a tailspin what with unemployment reigning high. People are faltering on mortgage payments too. Hence, foreclosures are at an all-time high. What’s more, the condition of the foreclosed properties is very bad. Companies in charge of removing junk have many sad stories to tell. The homes that have been abandoned by their owners are in various stages of disrepair. They provide a series of archaeological clues that these foreclosed properties had once been occupied by people.