Monday, April 18, 2011

Apple (AAPL) Mac Sales to Bolster Quarterly Results

While the rest of the PC sector was under pressure, Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) Mac sales, led by the new MacBook Pros, is up about 47 percent over last year's sales in the same quarter, according to Piper Jaffray's analyst Gene Munster, citing data from NPD Group.

In a note to clients Munster summarized data from the NPD Group for the last quarter:

In the month of March, U.S. Mac sales were up 47 percent year over year, driven by the new MacBook Pros that started shipping Feb. 24.

That 47% increase followed growth of 20 percent in January and 12 percent in February, for average of 27 percent over the first quarter of 2011.

That stands in stark contrast to the 3.2 percent drop in worldwide sales reported last week by IDC.

Munster writes that Apple’s (AAPL) fiscal second quarter ended last month, may beat analysts’ estimates for $23.3 billion in revenue, saying that Apple’s Mac sales are, “tracking at the high end of our expected range of 3.6 million to 3.7 million units,” for the March quarter.

Apple was trading at $325.86, dropping $1.60, or 0.49 percent, as of 2:32 PM EDT.

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