Apple improves its sales by 6% in the year thanks to the iPhone – The País.com (Spain)

Apple logo on a store in San Francisco / ROBERT GALBRAITH ( REUTERS)

Apple, the largest listed company in the world, ended the year a tax benefit amounted to 39.510 million. That represents an increase of 6.6% when crossed with the results of 2013 of this total, 8.500 million are in the fourth quarter. The maker of the iPhone, iPad and Mac recorded 182,800 million in sales, or 42.100 billion quarterly

. The company directed by Tim Cook sold between July and September, 39.3 million units of iPhone. Regarding the iPad tablet, the dropped to 12.3 million. For Mac computers, were around 5.5 million. They are numbers that met expectations. . For the quarter that matches the anticipated holiday shopping sales to 66,500 million

The Cupertino technology closes the Fiscal year to end September. A year ago, recorded revenues of 37,500 million in the fourth quarter and is now expected to come out to the 40,000 million. That figure business you brought in a profit of 7,500 million. At the end of 2013 it sold 34 million units of the phone and 14 million tablet

. Results from Apple were filed the same day that your electronic payments system came up to compete with PayPal, Google and Amazon. The attention of analysts is well placed in the first quarter of 2015, for further reception among consumers of the new phones with bigger screen and the latest update of the tablets.

The iPhone 6 it went on sale on September 19, which is not fully reflected in the published results although it is enough to give a boost to the 10 million units sold in just the first weekend. Their vulnerability is now on the iPad, which accumulates three quarters of falls in a saturated market. It may also explain why consumers expected the introduction of new

. The profit margin improved one point in the fourth quarter, to 38%. Apple’s stock has appreciated more than 35% last year, though it takes a fairly stable month. The title touched $ 100 before the publication of the results. In June, the shares were split seven to make it more affordable for investors. The activist Carl Icahn just resume the battle to get a higher return to investors.