As my colleague Russ Koesterich points out in a recent post, economic data was
mixed over the first quarter, with sluggish economic growth, a soft jobs report and weak manufacturing reports leading to diminishing consensus around company earnings.
Highlights: • Revenue in the
first quarter of fiscal 2012 grew 16 %
over the same
quarter last year • International revenue1 in Q1 grew 67 % year
over year • Gross margin in the
quarter was approximately 44 %, slightly higher than expected due to product
mix • RIM launched the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in North America and shipped approximately 500,000 units in the
first quarter