Apple's Holiday Quarter: By the Numbers

Expectations were high for Apple's holiday quarter sales. The company didn't quite live up to all of them.

Apple reported record revenue and record sales for iPhones and iPads in the December quarter, but the company still fell short of analyst estimates for iPhone sales.

As is always the case with a company of Apple's scale, though, the numbers were impressive even if they were mixed by analyst standards. We've rounded up a few of the highlights from Apple's earnings report and the earnings call that followed.

Apple sold 51 million iPhones in the quarter, its first time topping 50 million in sales.

It sold 26 million iPads in the quarter, up from 22.9 million a year earlier.

Apple sold 4.8 million Mac units for the quarter.

The company had $158.8 billion in cash at the end of the quarter, up from $147 billion at the end of the previous quarter.

Apple now has 420 stores worldwide, 166 of which are outside the United States.

Apple's stores generated $7 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 9% year-over-year. The average Apple store did $16.7 million in revenue.

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