CLAIM #1645 · AAPL (AAPL) · 2025Q4 earnings call · Oct 30, 2025 · due Sep 30, 2026
“In general, I think as we've talked about before, we are expecting increases in our CapEx spending related to AI investments.”
Kevan Parekh · CFO
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Look at: Capital expenditures (CapEx), as reported in cash flow statement (payments for acquisition of property, plant and equipment)
It came true if: Fiscal 2026 CapEx higher than fiscal 2025 reported CapEx
Where: Apple 10-K / cash flow statement, fiscal year 2026 results
In context
“erations. And so -- and we don't have a great in-depth survey yet on the current iPhone 17 because it's very new in the cycle, and we give it some time to formulate. But I would say that Apple Intelligence is a factor. And we're very bullish on it becoming a greater factor and so that's the way that we look at it. Richard Kramer: Okay. And then one for Kevan. In the wake of nearly every other large tech company massively increasing their CapEx in advance of AI demand and also mentioning that there's scarce capacity, do you anticipate Apple altering its sort of long-standing hybrid approach to your own and third-party data centers? And maybe can you talk a little bit about the role you see for Apple silicon with the new M5 series of chipsets? Kevan Parekh: Richard, thanks for the question. In general, I think as we've talked about before, we are expecting increases in our CapEx spending related to AI investments. For example, as I mentioned earlier, we did end up having investments this year to build out our private cloud compute environment. And we do believe this hybrid model has served us very well, and we continue to want to leverage it. And so I don't see us moving away from this hybrid model where we leverage both first-party capacity as well as leverage third-party capacity. We'll continue to want to build out private cloud compute, as Tim outlined, as we have more usage there over time. But I think in general, we want to continue to have this hybrid model. Suhasini Chandramouli: A replay of today's call will be available for 2 weeks on Apple podcast as a webcast on apple.com/investor and via telephone. The number for the telephone replay is (866) 583-1035. Please enter confirmation code 06”
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SEC filings for AAPL ↗ · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2025Q4 earnings call.