Monday, April 27, 2015

Apple boosts dividend, buyback as profit beats Street

- Apple Inc (AAPL.O) reported a 27 percent rise in quarterly revenue as iPhone sales surged and the company raised its share repurchase program by $50 billion. The most valuable publicly traded U.S. company said net income rose to $13.57 billion, or $2.33 per share, from $10.22 billion, or $1.66 per share, a year earlier.Revenue rose to $58.01 billion in the second quarter ended March 28, from $45.65 billion a year earlier.Apple increased its share repurchase authorization to $140 billion from $90 billion announced last year. (Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)

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