At the end of each fiscal quarter Apple reports its retail store revenues, totaling up all sales and also providing an average per-store figure. But those figures don’t give a clear picture of individual store revenues, and how many stores contribute the most–and least–to the total sales figure. Now data provided by knowledgeable people for the latest quarter of 2007 provides a not-so-surprising view: a graph of the revenue distribution is a typical bell curve, but slid slightly to the lower end of revenues. The graph shows that the most U.S. stores contributed revenue in the $3.25 million to $4.5 million range, and generally fewer stores contributed more or less than that amount.
The graph shows that 51 stores reported revenues in that low-to-middle range of $3.25 million to $4.5 million range. Just 13 stores report revenues in the high-end $8 million to $50 million range. At the low end of the scale, 32 stores reported revenues less than $3.25 million for the quarter.
At the elite upper end of the revenue scale, just four stores reported revenues over $10 million.
The revenue ranges vary as the amount increases in order to keep the graph compact.
