Apple: Best Quarter Ever, Ever, Ever for iPad, iPhone, Mac?

Apple: Best Quarter Ever, Ever, Ever for iPad, iPhone, Mac?

Apple’s Q1 2012 financial results, released today, were insanely great. Apple posted record profits, record revenues and rapid growth. For a company that does a relatively small number of things, this is kind of a big deal. Here are the numbers.

For its Q1 2012, Apple had:

• Revenue of $46.33 billion, up from $26.74 billion, nearly a 73 percent increase year over year, breaking records.
• Net profit of $13.06 billion, up from $6 billion year over year, representing another record breaking jump of 118 percent year-over-year.
• To put this in perspective, this is equal to half of net income generated over the entirety of Apple’s fiscal 2011 year.
• Interestingly, international sales drove 58 percent of Apple’s Q1 2012 revenue.

Where does all this money come from? In Q1 alone, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, which represented a 128 percent year-over-year growth. And let’s not forget the iPad, which grew 111 percent year over year with 15.43 million being sold. That’s not even Apple’s money maker. In fact, 53 percent of Apple’s revenue is coming from iPhones alone, with the next biggest seller, the iPad, at a modest 20 percent.

Apple, once the Macintosh company, now generates a mere 14 percent of its revenue stream from Macs. Still, Mac sales jumped 26 percent to 5.2 million units this quarter. The only Apple product to slow down is the iPod, which declined 21 percent since Q1 2011.

Before Apple released its figures, Wall Street was wary and Apple stock dropped a bit. But in after-hour trading, at the time of this writing, Apple’s stock has jumped almost 8 percent to $451. Wall Street is undoubtedly happy with Apple’s explosive growth and record breaking numbers, some even calling Apple beyond “stupid rich.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook had modest words.“Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.” Apple’s CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, had an equally modest comment. “We are very happy to have generated over $17.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter.” Very happy.

These numbers almost speak for themselves. Apple is growing like crazy, people are buying their products like crazy, and Apple still hasn’t even released their best stuff yet — presumably the iPad 3 and iPhone 5 later in 2012. If there was any ever doubt that Apple would be invading the entire computing world, let it be erased now.

Mobile Device Management VARs and MSPs suit up: 2012 is going to be the year iOS is everywhere.