Apple financials - Q4 '08

Highlights from Apple's Q4 '08 conference call.

Note: Apple's stock price closed at $91.49. After hours it was trading at $93.40 before the announcement.

• Record breaking on a number of fronts
• More Macs sold than in any previous quarter
• More iPhones sold this quarter than over all previous quarters
• More iPods sold than in any other non-Holiday quarter
• Revenue of $6.22 billion
• Profits of $904 million
• International sales accounted for 41%
• 2,611,000 Macs sold - 21% unit growth, 17% revenue growth over year-ago quarter
• 11,052,000 iPods sold - 8% unit growth, 3% revenue growth over year-ago quarter
• Total iPods sold to date: 174,093,000
• 6,892,000 iPhones sold compared to 1,119,000 in the year-ago-quarter
• Total iPhones sold to date: 11,627,000
• iPod market share in the US over 70%
• $25 billion of cash safely in the bank with zero debt
• Guidance for Q1 '09 - revenue of $9.0 to $10.0 billion and earnings per diluted share between $1.06 and $1.35
• iTunes store has more than 65 million active accounts
• Apple beat RIM this quarter, so the iPhone has for the first time outsold the Blackberry after only 15 months in the market
• Apple now third larger mobile phone manufacturers in terms of revenue (behind Nokia and Samsung)
• Apple customers more likely to delay purchase in tough times rather than switch
• Steve Jobs on netbook: "Not a lot of them getting sold."
• K12 business down.
• Steve Jobs on price: "There are some customers we choose not to serve."

Note: In after hours trading AAPL price has shot up over 11% to $102.21.

Apple Q4 '08 press release here.