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Financial Highlights
Annual Revenue
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
BlackBerry Subscriber Account Base
(in thousands)
(in thousands of U.S. dollars, except per share amounts)
U.S. GAAP March 1, 2008 March 3, 2007 March 4, 2006
Statement of Operations data
Revenue $ 6,009,395 $ 3,037,103 $ 2,065,845
Gross margin $ 3,080,581 $ 1,657,802 $ 1,140,247
Research & development and selling,
general and administration 1,241,310 774,095 473,204
Amortization 108,112 76,879 49,951
Litigation – – 201,791
Investment income 79,361 52,117 66,218
Income before income taxes 1,810,520 858,945 481,519
Provision for income taxes 516,653 227,373 106,863
Net income $ 1,293,867 $ 631,572 $ 374,656
Earnings per share
Basic $ 2.31 $ 1.14 $ 0.66
Diluted $ 2.26 $ 1.10 $ 0.64
Operating data (percentage of revenue)
Gross margin 51.3% 54.6% 55.2%
Research and development 6.0% 7.8% 7.7%
Selling, marketing and administration 14.7% 17.7% 15.2%
Balance Sheet data
Cash, cash equivalents, short-term
investments and investments $ 2,343,996 $ 1,412,878 $ 1,249,402
Total assets $ 5,511,187 $ 3,088,949 $ 2,314,349
Shareholders’ equity $ 3,933,566 $ 2,483,500 $ 1,995,415
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