Apple Inc. (AAPL) Revenue-to-Profit Sankey Flow & SEC XBRL Financials
Apple Inc. (AAPL) carries a Roarable Rating of C- (Hold) with 61/100 RQD Confidence. The underlying business is intact, so current owners don’t need to panic-sell—but mixed big-money flow or rich pricing means new buyers can afford to wait for either a pullback or a B-or-higher upgrade.
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Multi-Year SEC EDGAR XBRL Revenue, Net Profit & Free Cash Flow Trajectory
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Gross Margin | Op Margin | Net Profit | Free Cash Flow | ROIC % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2025 | $416.16B | 46.9% | 32% | $112.01B | $98.77B | 81.8% |
| FY 2024 | $391.04B | 46.2% | 31.5% | $93.74B | $108.81B | 78.7% |
| FY 2023 | $383.29B | 44.1% | 29.8% | $97.00B | $99.58B | 65.8% |
| FY 2022 | $394.33B | 43.3% | 30.3% | $99.80B | $111.44B | 68.8% |
| FY 2021 | $365.82B | 41.8% | 29.8% | $94.68B | $92.95B | 58.6% |
| FY 2020 | $274.51B | 38.2% | 24.1% | $57.41B | $73.36B | 38.9% |
In accession 0000320193-25-000079 (FY2025 10-K), Apple explicitly inserted forward-looking cautionary disclaimers specifically targeting tariffs and administrative trade measures, reflecting heightened sensitivity to bilateral geopolitical cross-pressures. Crucially, management altered its manufacturing concentration language from 'substantially all' offshore outsourcing to 'a significant majority' with an overt nod to domestic sourcing facilities, signaling forced capital redeployment and ongoing supply-chain re-architecting out of Greater China. Furthermore, legal counsel expanded Item 1A macro warnings directly to equity valuation ('stock price') while introducing safe-harbor protective fencing around historical vs. forward-looking risk materialization.
Management watered down 'substantially all' to 'a significant majority' and explicitly carved in U.S. partner facilities. This tactical edit confirms that Apple is aggressively accelerating capital expenditure and unit commitments away from pure China concentration toward higher-cost domestic and distributed packaging, introducing structurally higher per-unit assembly costs and initial production yield drag.
Legal counsel specifically singled out 'tariffs and other measures' inside the PSLRA safe-harbor preamble. This preemptive legal fence-building indicates that internal modeling shows incoming tariff actions pose imminent gross-margin degradation that management cannot fully pass through to consumers via hardware pricing.
The repetitive explicit insertion of 'and stock price' across primary macroeconomic headings, combined with new language stating disclosures 'are not representations as to whether such matters have or have not occurred previously,' limits shareholder class-action liability if delayed carrier upgrade cycles or tariff-induced EPS compression trigger sudden multiple contraction.
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SEC XBRL FY2024 → FY2025: Net share cannibal / buyback tailwind.
vs. +14.2% actual YoY revenue growth (assuming 9.25% cost of equity & 16.5x terminal multiple).
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100% OPEN ACCESS • SEC EDGAR × CBOE × FREDHow profitable is Apple Inc. (AAPL)?
In FY 2025 (10-K), AAPL converted $416.2B of revenue into a 46.9% gross margin, 32% operating margin, and $98.8B in free cash flow (23.7% FCF margin).