Verizon Margins Chopped on iPhone Sales (VZ, VOD, AAPL, GOOG)
Too much of a good thing, maybe, for Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). Verizon Wireless, the company’s joint venture with Vodafone plc (NASDAQ: VOD) sold 4.2 million Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones in the fourth quarter, but Verizon’s margins will…
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Too much of a good thing, maybe, for Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). Verizon Wireless, the company’s joint venture with Vodafone plc (NASDAQ: VOD) sold 4.2 million Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones in the fourth quarter, but Verizon’s margins will fall because the iPhones cost the company more than other smartphones that use the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG).
Verizon’s fourth quarter iPhone sales were more than double the third quarter, when sales reached about 2 million as consumers waited for the new iPhone 4s. Verizon expects a 5% hit on wireless margin as a result of the hefty iPhone sales.
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Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.
He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.
