The numbers of Apple's success and innovations

The success and innovation capability of the co-founder and former boss of Apple is also evident in the impressive financials of the company.

How innovative the company Apple (AAPL 369.9636 -1.65%) is, everyone knows that a computer, an iPhone, iPad, or owns an iPod. Also in the figures of the company is proposing the tremendous success of this company down significantly. Solely measured by its market capitalization is Apple just behind the oil giant Exxon Mobil's second all companies in the world. Here, both the revenue and profit for oil giants are still much higher than at Apple: The most recent annual revenues of Exxon amounted to 341 billion in annual profit to 30.4 billion. However, Apple reported sales of 65 billion and a profit of 14 billion dollars.

The reason for the high valuation of Apple lies in the stock market in rapid growth of the company, the investor in terms of share price as well as analysts expected in the future - at least they did before the partial withdrawal of Steve Jobs. Only the last quarter of sales, Apple has released the end of June, compared with that of last year rose by 81 percent. The profit has been even more than doubled: from 3.2 to 7.3 billion dollars. Analysts expect Apple in the last quarter of this year will achieve a profit of 8.2 billion.

Analysts continue to rely on the continued success

Thus it is no wonder that of the 55 surveyed by Bloomberg 50 analysts rate the shares of Apple to recommend purchasing the remaining 5, they would at least "hold". A sell recommendation is not one off.

The confidence in the company's potential is nourished from the fact that it has proven to be very flexible in bringing new products to market. So live Apple, which has not yet seen recently, especially as computer companies, especially today of its latest products. So the iPhone is by far dominated the sales of Comupterriesen. This owes Smartphone Apple unsurprisingly also especially its growth in recent years

In the last quarter, with sales for the iPhone and related products to 13.3 billion dollars in the same quarter last year there were $ 5.3 billion. Brought the desktop computer it only in the last quarter to 1.5 billion, the portable units to 3.1 billion. Even with the iPad Apple achieved with 6 billion dollars more revenue than portables and desktops together, define their sales, in contrast to the rapid growth of new devices any more.

Highly profitable and a healthy balance

The strength of Apple's innovation enables the company also offers a return of the others can only dream of. The operating margin is around 30 percent. And the balance is full of strength: Apple has $ 12 billion in the fund, which covers almost half of all short-term debt. The total available short-term investments (in addition to cash are among other current liabilities of others in Apple) exceed the total debt by nearly $ 10 billion.

The figures make clear the strength of Apple is primarily the result of the innovation ability of the company, and it has the co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs played an important role. Its partial withdrawal to the Chairman of the Board for the software giant is therefore not good news. No wonder, the share of the highly successful company on the stock market crashed today in European trading day at the start of trading by almost 6 percent.

Source derbund.ch