Earnings per common share (diluted) for Apple Inc. 2005-2024, by quarter

In the fourth quarter of its 2024 fiscal year, Apple’s earnings per common share (diluted) stood at 0.97 U.S. dollars. The figure has fluctuated over the years, hitting a low of 0.34 dollars in the second quarter of FY2005 and a high of 13.87 dollars in the first quarter of FY2012.

Apple Inc.

As the first public company worldwide to have hit the one trillion U.S. dollar market capitalization landmark, Apple has offered generous returns to its stakeholders. Growing from the humble beginning in a garage in California, it is now the world’s most valuable brand and brings in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue each year. The company revolutionizes the tech industry time and time again with its various consumer electronics devices, such as the Mac computer, iPod and iPhone, and its application products, such as the iTunes. More recently, Apple has increased the scope of its offerings even further to provide consumers with cloud storage and a mobile payment platform.