Apple unveiled today its results for the first quarter of the year, announcing that will distribute more than 70 billion dollars (64.3 billion euros) to its shareholders. And announced that it will expand its process of share repurchase and dividend payments to a total of 200 billion dollars (183.7 billion euros) by the end of March 2017, reports the Financial Times (FT) .
This is an increase of capitalization of the most valuable company in the world – up from 130 billion dollars predicted a year ago. A perspective based on optimistic growth of 27% in revenues (58 billion dollars – 53.2 billion euros). That the company achieved in the first three months of the year (in what is the second fiscal quarter in the US)
An increase in revenue largely based on the success of the iPhone, whose sales grew 40% over the previous quarter. 61.2 million of these were sold smartphones worldwide between January 1 and March 31.
“We are seeing a higher percentage of people to switch to the iPhone we’ve seen in previous periods “said the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook said in a statement quoted by the FT.
This responsibility was even optimistic for sales of the new ‘gadget’ of the company’s apple, Apple Watch.
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