Apple just announced it Q4 earnings. Just sit back and read these numbers –

– Apple has $146.8 billion in cash, 76% offshore.
– Apple made 15 strategic acquisitions in its financial year. That’s around one every 3 week!
– Apple sold 33.8m iPhone sold in the quarter, up 26%, record Sept. quarter and 150 million iPhone sales in fiscal 2013.
– Apple sold 14.1M iPads in the quarter
– 94% of tablets in education are iPads
– Best Education quarter ever. Up 8% YOY. iPad up 22% YOY. Mac up 8% YOY. $1 billion in Education revenues in a Quarter for the first tim
– 99% customer satisfaction rate with its iPads
– $4.4B in iTunes Store sales, $4.3B in iTunes software/services revenue
– 60 billion app downloads
– 20 million iTunes Radio listeners
-iPhone sales up 36% per store, per week from last year
– 49 stores opened or remodelled this year
– 8 new stores opened in Q4, 2 remodelled, 99 million visitors. 416 stores total, 162 outside US, $10.9 million in revenue in Q4.
– 30 new stores coming in 2014, 20 remodels. 2/3rds outside the US.
– $55-$58 billion revenue estimate for Q1 2014 – LOOK AT THIS FIGURE AGAIN. A massive increase from last quarter
– 4.6 million Macs sold, down from 4.9 last year
– 16 million Macs in fiscal 2013

So these are the numbers. Also worth noting –

– Tim Cook not sure there will be enough iPad Mini with retina display for the Christmas demand
– 2014 will see the launch of not 1 but 2 new product categories for Apple
– the iPhone 5C was never meant to be cheap
– China represented 15% of all Q4 income
– Apple’s margins down from 40% to 37%.

I wish I could create a company with such massive margins and sales.