Apple periodically gives data for traders on its company web site, apple.com, and its investor relations web site, investor.apple.com. This contains press releases and different details about monetary efficiency, studies filed or furnished with the SEC, data on company governance, and particulars associated to its annual assembly of shareholders.
This press launch comprises forward-looking statements, throughout the which means of the Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements embody with out limitation these in regards to the Firm’s plans for return of capital, the fee of its quarterly dividend, and its funding plans and environmental initiatives. These statements contain dangers and uncertainties, and precise outcomes could differ materially from any future outcomes expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Dangers and uncertainties embody with out limitation: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Firm’s enterprise, outcomes of operations, monetary situation, and inventory value; the impact of world and regional financial situations on the Firm’s enterprise, together with results on buying choices by customers and companies; the flexibility of the Firm to compete in markets which might be extremely aggressive and topic to speedy technological change; the flexibility of the Firm to handle frequent introductions and transitions of services and products, together with delivering to {the marketplace}, and stimulating buyer demand for, new merchandise, providers, and technological improvements on a well timed foundation; the impact that shifts within the mixture of services and products and within the geographic, foreign money, or channel combine, part price will increase, will increase in the price of growing, buying, and delivering content material for the Firm’s providers, value competitors, or the introduction of latest services or products, together with new services or products with larger price constructions, might have on the Firm’s gross margin; the dependency of the Firm on the efficiency of distributors of the Firm’s merchandise, together with mobile community carriers and different resellers; the chance of write-downs on the worth of stock and different belongings and buy dedication cancellation danger; the continued availability on acceptable phrases, or in any respect, of sure elements, providers, and new applied sciences important to the Firm’s enterprise, together with elements and applied sciences which will solely be accessible from single or restricted sources; the dependency of the Firm on manufacturing and logistics providers supplied by third events, a lot of that are positioned outdoors of the US and which can have an effect on the standard, amount, or price of merchandise manufactured or providers rendered to the Firm; the impact of product and providers design and manufacturing defects on the Firm’s monetary efficiency and repute; failure to acquire or create digital content material that appeals to the Firm’s prospects, or to make such content material accessible on commercially affordable phrases; the dependency of the Firm on third-party mental property, which is probably not accessible to the Firm on commercially affordable phrases or in any respect; the dependency of the Firm on help from third-party software program builders to develop and preserve software program purposes and providers for the Firm’s merchandise; the affect of unfavorable authorized proceedings or authorities investigations; the affect of complicated and altering legal guidelines and laws worldwide, which expose the Firm to potential liabilities, elevated prices, and different opposed results on the Firm’s enterprise; the extraordinary media, political, and regulatory scrutiny, which exposes the Firm to growing regulation, authorities investigations, authorized actions, and penalties; the flexibility of the Firm to handle dangers related to the Firm’s retail shops; the flexibility of the Firm to handle dangers related to the Firm’s investments in new enterprise methods and acquisitions; the affect on the Firm’s enterprise and repute from data know-how system failures, community disruptions, or losses or unauthorized entry to, or launch of, confidential data; the flexibility of the Firm to adjust to legal guidelines and laws concerning knowledge safety; the continued service and availability of extremely expert staff, together with key personnel; political occasions, commerce and different worldwide disputes, struggle, terrorism, pure disasters, public well being points, industrial accidents, and different enterprise interruptions that would disrupt provide or supply of, or demand for, the Firm’s merchandise; monetary dangers, together with dangers referring to foreign money fluctuations, credit score dangers, and fluctuations available in the market worth of the Firm’s funding portfolio; and adjustments in tax charges, the adoption of latest US or worldwide tax laws, and publicity to extra tax liabilities. Extra data on these dangers and different potential elements that would have an effect on the Firm’s enterprise and monetary outcomes is included within the Firm’s filings with the SEC, together with within the “Danger Components” and “Administration’s Dialogue and Evaluation of Monetary Situation and Outcomes of Operations” sections of the Firm’s most just lately filed periodic studies on Kind 10-Okay and Kind 10-Q and subsequent filings. The Firm assumes no obligation to replace any forward-looking statements or data, which converse as of their respective dates.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. In the present day, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
