Apple periodically offers data for buyers 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, experiences filed or furnished with the SEC, data on company governance, and particulars associated to its annual assembly of shareholders.
This press launch accommodates forward-looking statements, throughout the that means of the Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements embody with out limitation these concerning the Firm’s plans for return of capital, the cost 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 circumstances on the Firm’s enterprise, together with results on buying choices by shoppers and companies; the power of the Firm to compete in markets which are extremely aggressive and topic to fast technological change; the power of the Firm to handle frequent introductions and transitions of services, together with delivering to {the marketplace}, and stimulating buyer demand for, new merchandise, companies, and technological improvements on a well timed foundation; the impact that shifts within the mixture of services and within the geographic, foreign money, or channel combine, part price will increase, will increase in the price of creating, buying, and delivering content material for the Firm’s companies, value competitors, or the introduction of recent services or products, together with new services or products with larger price buildings, 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 danger of write-downs on the worth of stock and different property and buy dedication cancellation danger; the continued availability on acceptable phrases, or in any respect, of sure elements, companies, and new applied sciences important to the Firm’s enterprise, together with elements and applied sciences that will solely be out there from single or restricted sources; the dependency of the Firm on manufacturing and logistics companies offered 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 companies rendered to the Firm; the impact of product and companies design and manufacturing defects on the Firm’s monetary efficiency and fame; failure to acquire or create digital content material that appeals to the Firm’s clients, or to make such content material out there on commercially cheap phrases; the dependency of the Firm on third-party mental property, which will not be out there to the Firm on commercially cheap 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 companies 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 rising regulation, authorities investigations, authorized actions, and penalties; the power of the Firm to handle dangers related to the Firm’s retail shops; the power 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 fame from data know-how system failures, community disruptions, or losses or unauthorized entry to, or launch of, confidential data; the power 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, battle, 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 out there worth of the Firm’s funding portfolio; and adjustments in tax charges, the adoption of recent US or worldwide tax laws, and publicity to further 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 “Threat Components” and “Administration’s Dialogue and Evaluation of Monetary Situation and Outcomes of Operations” sections of the Firm’s most lately filed periodic experiences 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 communicate as of their respective dates.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At this time, 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 folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.