San Francisco (USA), April 26 (EFE) .- The benefits of Apple fell 22.5% during the first three months of 2016, which represents the first quarterly drop in profits of the enterprise from the 2003, reported the technology giant.
in addition, sales of iPhone handsets fell for the first time in history during the period.
the company, based in the California city of Cupertino (USA) announced revenue and earnings below market expectations for its second fiscal quarter, which ended March 26.
Your benefits in the period they were located in 10.520 million, equivalent to $ 1.90 per share, compared with 13,570 million in the same period last year. Revenue fell 13% to 50,550 million dollars.
“The performance of our team was extremely good despite having strong macroeconomic headwinds,” he said in a statement the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.
the financial results published today also show a fall of 8.6% in the fiscal first half profit of Apple, to 28,877 million dollars.
revenue in the semester they totaled 126.429 million dollars, compared with 132,609,000 in the same period of 2015.
the company expects revenue of 41.000 million and 43.000 million during the current quarter, which ends in late June, below analysts’ forecasts of 47,300 million dollars.
iPhone sales accounted for 65% of total revenues of Apple in the quarter ended in March, when the company sold 50.4 million of its phones at an average price of $ 641, below the $ 658 projected by analysts.
the company also announced today that its board of directors approved an increase of 50,000 million dollars in the . payment of dividends to shareholders
the company plans to spend a total of 250.000 million in dividend payments until the end of 2018. EFE
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