Apple Hits It Out Of The Park With Tim Cook’s Last Earnings As The CEO Despite Scorching-Hot Memory Prices, But Drops The Ball On Services

Apple has just disclosed the earnings for its fiscal third quarter of 2026, delivering on heightened expectations with a strong print albeit marred by weakness in its services segment.

Here are the key highlights from Apple's latest quarterly earnings release:

  1. Total Sales - $109.42 billion, up 16.3% year-over-year (YoY)
    • iPhone Sales - $54.252 billion, up 21.7% YoY
    • Mac Sales - $10.352 billion, up 28.7% YoY
    • iPad Sales - $6.191 billion, dowwn 5.9% YoY
    • Wearables, Home and Accessories - $7.883 billion, up 6.5% YoY
  2. Services - $30.739 billion, up 12.1% YoY but shy of consensus expectations of $31.36 billion
  3. Gross Margin - $54.77 billion or 25.3 percent vs. expectations of 48%
  4. R&D Expenses - $11.729 billion
  5. Net Income - $29.789 billion
  6. Cash and Cash Equivalents - $39.544 billion

Apple earned $78.68 billion from its products segment and $30.739 billion from its services segment, equating to 18.1 percent year-over-year growth for the former and 12.1 percent for the latter.

Apple's Q3 2026 total sales managed to beat the consensus estimate of $108.85 billion. Likewise, its quarterly EPS of $2.02 also came ahead of consensus expectations, which were pegged at $1.89. China sales, at $18.816 billion, came out worse than the $19.58 billion number estimated by analysts.

Apple's iPhone revenue beat expectations, which were pegged at $53.60 billion vs. the $54.25 billion haul that the Cupertino giant reported for the latest three-month period.

Similarly, ahead of today's disclosure, Apple's Mac revenue consensus estimate was pegged at $8.62 billion, while that for iPad revenue and wearables was pegged at $6.89 billion and $7.87 billion, respectively.

Basically, Apple has missed consensus expectations on its services revenue, iPad revenue, and revenue from China. All consensus estimates have been sourced from here .

  1. "Mac Delivered its best June quarter yet with 10.4 billion in revenue, growing an impressive 29% from a year ago despite significant supply constraints."
  2. Apple has identified "foreign exchange headwinds" as one of the reasons behind weakness in services revenue.
  3. Apple says MacBook Neo's "gross margin was 40.1%, up 140 basis points sequentially," and includes a 2.5% favorable impact from tariff refunds.
  4. Apple says "during the June quarter, we did experience supply constraints primarily on the Mac and to a lesser extent on iPhone and iPad. These were driven by very high levels of demand."

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