The technology giant

Apple

announced on Tuesday profits in the first nine months of its fiscal year of

74,129 million dollars

, 66% more than in the same period of the previous year, boosted by the iPhone and services.

Between October 2020 and June 2021 (Apple's fiscal year begins in October), the Cupertino (California) company

earned $ 282,457 million

, above the 209,817 invoiced in the same nine months of last year.

For their part, investors in the bitten apple company pocketed $ 4.42 per share during this period, compared to $ 2.56 a year ago.

By business segment, the iPhone phone, which two years ago was in a certain downward trend and was putting its preeminence as Apple's main source of income at risk, is experiencing a resurgence with extraordinary strength, and it is now again assuming more than half of all company sales.

Thus, of the 282,457 million billed so far this fiscal year, 153,105 million correspond to sales of

iPhones

(54%), and the rest come, in this order, from

services

(50,148 million), technology for

clothing and the home

(29,582 million),

Mac

computers

(26,012 million) and

iPad

tablets

(23,610 million).

Especially significant is the

revenue from services

, 28% more year-on-year, since this segment is the company's great bet for the future, and in recent years it has launched a multitude

of subscription platforms

in sectors as diverse as television entertainment, video games, the press and music.

"We continue to advance in our efforts to instill in our products all those values ​​that define us. We inspire a new generation of developers to learn to code, we are approaching our environmental goal for 2030 and we are building a more equitable future," he said when presenting the accounts Apple CEO

Tim Cook

.

The good results presented by Apple

did not finish convincing investors on Wall Street

, and the company's shares fell 1.10% to $ 145.14 per share in electronic operations after the closing of the New York parks.

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MICROSOFT INCREASES YOUR PROFIT BY 38%

The US multinational software and computer services

Microsoft

announced on Tuesday

net profits of 61,271 million dollars

for the whole of its financial year 2021, 38% more than in the same period last year, boosted once again by the good performance of your smart cloud.

The technology giant led by the executive Satya Nadella had a turnover of

168,088 million dollars

in the last 12 months, which represents more than 17% more than in fiscal year 2020, and the shareholders pocketed 8.05 dollars per share, compared to the 5.76 from a year ago.

For the second year in a row, Microsoft highlighted the benefits of its

business in the cloud

, which have grown by 36% compared to the year 2020 to reach 19,500 million dollars, according to the financial director of the technology giant, Amy Hood. .

As for the fourth quarter of 2021, the most followed by Wall Street analysts, the company obtained a profit of 16,458 million dollars, about 47% more than in the same period of the previous year.

On the other hand, sales between April and June amounted to 46,152 million dollars, which represents almost 21% more than in that section of 2020, while shareholders pocketed 2.17 dollars per share, compared to 1.46 from a year ago.

Microsoft stressed that the good results of their business is due to the

innovations they have presented

, which they consider meet the needs of the market.

"We are innovating the technology stack to help organizations reach new levels of technology intensity in their businesses," Nadella explained in a statement released with the results.

"Our results show that we have a good execution and that we meet the needs of our clients in a differentiated way in large and growing markets," said the CEO of Microsoft, who noted that they have been successful not only in the cloud but in the

sector gaming, security and the Linkedin social network

, all of them with sales of more than 10 billion dollars per year in the last three years.

Microsoft's results were released at the close of the New York Stock Exchange and in electronic operations its shares fell 0.87%, despite exceeding analysts' expectations.

Since the beginning of 2021,

Microsoft has appreciated about 29% in the stock market

and its market capitalization reaches 2.18 trillion dollars, one of the largest behind Apple.

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