TL;DR
Apple's higher FY2025 operating profit did not produce more operating cash: profit rose from $123.216 billion to $133.050 billion while operating cash flow fell from $118.254 billion to $111.482 billion. Cash flow minus capital expenditure fell from $108.807 billion to $98.767 billion. Use Claude to compare matching fiscal periods and reconcile the original statements, including working capital and noncash items. These operating figures alone do not establish a stock valuation.
Did Apple's higher operating profit turn into more cash?
These are reported annual periods. CFO minus PPE preserves the source's cash-flow scope; the exact inputs remain in the table.
- FY2025 operating profit
- $133.050B
- FY2025 operating cash flow
- $111.482B
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| Operating cash flow | 110.543 | 118.254 | 111.482 |
| PPE purchases | 10.959 | 9.447 | 12.715 |
| CFO − PPE | 99.584 | 108.807 | 98.767 |
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FY2025 operating profit rose from $123.216B to $133.050B, while operating cash flow fell from $118.254B to $111.482B. The business earned more accounting profit but generated less operating cash that year.
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Compare three full fiscal periods
Operating margin = operating income ÷ revenue. Not returned means missing, never zero. Source FCF definitions require the reconciliation below.
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| AAPL · 2023-09-30 | $383.285B | $114.301B / 29.82% | $96.995B | $99.584B |
| AAPL · 2024-09-28 | $391.035B | $123.216B / 31.51% | $93.736B | $108.807B |
| AAPL · 2025-09-27 | $416.161B | $133.050B / 31.97% | $112.010B | $98.767B |
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Operating margin = operating income ÷ revenue. Not returned means missing, never zero. Source FCF definitions require the reconciliation below.
Read-only NexusTrade sec_edgar fundamentals retrieved October 12, 2026 and checked against the original annual statements. Amounts below are USD billions; the retained raw response uses USD. These are historical fiscal periods, not a live quote or a forecast.
Follow the calculation into the business
Evidence 1
Revenue: $391.035B → $416.161B. Operating margin: 31.51% → 31.97%.
Evidence 2
Capital expenditure: $9.447B → $12.715B. CFO minus capital expenditure: $108.807B → $98.767B.
Evidence 3
Services sales increased from $96.169B to $109.158B; product sales increased from $294.866B to $307.003B. Services are a reporting category, not a synonym for AI or cloud revenue.
What this result leaves unanswered
Accounting explanation
Profit and cash differ because of noncash expenses and working capital. Inspect the cash-flow reconciliation before blaming the revenue mix.
Business and investment limits
FY2024 net income includes a tax effect; operating income is the cleaner starting comparison here. This evidence contains no valuation, current share price or expected stock return.
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Select FY rows by periodEnd instead of assuming the array is latest first. Source statements may present comparative years in one filing. Their later publication does not prove those exact restated values were available at the earlier historical date.
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| AAPL | 2023 | 2023-09-30 | 2023-11-03 | Annual FY, USD |
| AAPL | 2024 | 2024-09-28 | 2024-11-01 | Annual FY, USD |
| AAPL | 2025 | 2025-09-27 | 2025-10-31 | Annual FY, USD |
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| The reported business improved | Same-period revenue and operating income | Source definitions and segment mix |
| Profit turned into cash | CFO reconciliation and PPE scope | Working capital and noncash items |
| The stock is attractive | Not established by these statements | Price, valuation assumptions and competing outcomes |
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AAPL: Q3 fiscal 2026 reported result
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NexusTrade sec_edgar read recorded October 10, 2026. The reporting period ended 2026-06-27; the filing date was 2026-07-31.
- Revenue
- $109.417B109,417,000,000 USD
- Operating income
- $35.695B35,695,000,000 USD
- Operating margin
- 32.62%Calculated as operating income ÷ revenue.
Interpret the reported figures
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Operating margin describes this reported period. Keep annual and quarterly values separate, select the matching period explicitly, and retain the source filing. The fundamentals array includes older observations and is not ordered latest first.
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Expected output is dated filing rows or annual metric records, rather than a generic stock recommendation. If the source has no matching fiscal period, leave the comparison unresolved and follow the issuer link below.
Start the current company brief with the latest filed annual and quarterly periods returned by the tool. The historical worked example below checks your reconciliation method; it does not replace that current filing review.
Call sec_edgar with each argument object below. The first requests filing rows; the second requests inline annual XBRL metrics. Keep filing dates, accession identifiers and links returned by the tool. Do not use ingest_filings for this read-only check.
{
"ticker": "AAPL",
"action": "list_filings",
"forms": [
"10-K",
"10-Q"
],
"since": "2024-01-01",
"limit": 10
}
{
"ticker": "AAPL",
"action": "fundamentals",
"periods": "annual"
}Worked source check: Apple FY2024
Inspect the original worked source check: apple fy2024
The Apple release published 2024-10-31 reports the fiscal year ended 2024-09-28. The statement values below are USD millions. This is a fixed historical source example, not the newest company report.
Dividing operating cash flow by revenue gives 30.24% for this annual period. That cash conversion ratio measures operating cash flow relative to reported sales. It is not free cash flow, a stock-return forecast or a reason to buy. A later release may restate an earlier value; retain the original source and explain any mismatch.
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| Net sales / revenue | 391,035 | 2024-09-28 |
| Operating cash flow | 118,254 | 2024-09-28 |
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Historical issuer-reported values, not trading performance.
Reconcile the tool values with the actual statement
Inspect the original reconcile the tool values with the actual statement
Check the cash-flow statement period: a nine-month year-to-date value cannot be compared with a twelve-month revenue value. Normalize millions versus dollars before computing a ratio. Do not add a company metric to a price rule unless its historical availability is represented.
Use the returned AAPL filing rows and annual XBRL metrics. Reconcile FY2024 revenue 391,035 and operating cash flow 118,254, both USD millions, for the year ended 2024-09-28, against this source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q4/FY24_Q4_Consolidated_Financial_Statements.pdf. Build a table with metric, raw value, unit, start/end dates, fiscal period, source publication date and source URL. Separate any quarterly, year-to-date, annual and restated records. Explain mismatches rather than choosing the most favorable number. Return an AAPL review note with the filing table, unresolved differences and returned operation IDs. Do not create, backtest, deploy or trade a portfolio.Resolve one remaining question without duplicate research
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If the brief needs broader evidence, review a specific research_topic message before submitting it. Preserve researchJobId from the accepted response and poll get_research_status with research_job_id set to that exact returned value. PROCESSING means poll the same job; COMPLETED supplies report/citations; FAILED supplies an error. Another research_topic call starts another billed run.
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Read filings
NexusTrade toolsec_edgar
Output to inspectIssuer, accession, reporting period and publication date
Read relevant news
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Output to inspectDated publisher links; distinguish news from filings
Submit bounded research
NexusTrade toolresearch_topic
Output to inspectresearchJobId and source-backed question
Poll the accepted job
NexusTrade toolget_research_status
Output to inspectSame research_job_id, completed report and citations
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| Read filings | sec_edgar | Issuer, accession, reporting period and publication date |
| Read relevant news | search_stock_news | Dated publisher links; distinguish news from filings |
| Submit bounded research | research_topic | researchJobId and source-backed question |
| Poll the accepted job | get_research_status | Same research_job_id, completed report and citations |
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research_topic is asynchronous. Poll get_research_status with the same job ID instead of launching another billed research run for the same question.
Actual NexusTrade filing-tool output
Inspect the exact returned fields and original requests
We ran the two read-only sec_edgar requests below through NexusTrade on October 10, 2026. The filing list and quarterly fundamentals returned AAPL Q3 fiscal 2026, ending 2026-06-27, filed 2026-07-31. The original SEC statement's three-month columns agree with the revenue and operating income shown here after converting millions to USD.
Select the matching fiscal period and periodEnd explicitly. The returned fundamentals array includes older observations and is not ordered latest first. These recorded NexusTrade tool results provide a reference for your own filing reads. Preserve the returned filing date even when it differs from the earnings release date.
This receipt records a NexusTrade filing read on October 10, 2026. Optional historical exercises retain their own periods and units.
| Returned field | Actual value |
|---|---|
| Ticker | AAPL |
| Fiscal period | Q3 fiscal 2026 |
| periodEnd | 2026-06-27 |
| filed | 2026-07-31 |
| totalRevenue (USD) | 109417000000 |
| operatingIncome (USD) | 35695000000 |
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[
{
"ticker": "AAPL",
"action": "list_filings",
"forms": [
"10-K",
"10-Q"
],
"limit": 2
},
{
"ticker": "AAPL",
"action": "fundamentals",
"periods": "quarterly"
}
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What you should see: NexusTrade appears in your connectors and is enabled for this conversation. The next step checks which account its tools can read.
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Skip this step if you only want to inspect the public filing in the next step. Before reading or changing an owned portfolio, ask for a read-only list, inspect one returned ID with get_portfolio and compare its name, strategies and deployment type. An authenticated empty list is valid for a new account.
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Use fetch_portfolios with the JSON below. Read a portfolioId returned by that call with get_portfolio, setting its portfolio_id argument to the same value. Compare the name, type and strategies with the intended NexusTrade account. If no portfolio exists, keep the empty result and use the company data request next. Do not create anything during this check.
{
"include_paper": true,
"include_live": false,
"include_chat_portfolios": true,
"include_positions": false,
"limit": 20,
"page": 1
}
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