Provenance Record

Comprehensive earnings News article (847 words). Clean structure: headline metrics, segment breakdown, regional, capital return, forward guidance, leadership transition, what's unknown. All four sources fetched and used substantively.

{"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/":"source-0.html — Verified verbatim: $111.2B revenue, up 17% YoY; $2.01 diluted EPS, up 22%; $28B operating cash flow; $100B share repurchase authorization; $0.27 dividend (4% increase); 'double-digit growth across every geographic segment' Cook quote; quarter ended March 28, 2026; Kevan Parekh as CFO.","https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/30/apple-reports-q2-2026-earnings-111-2-billion-in-revenue-up-17/":"source-1.html — Verified verbatim: Net profit $29.58B (bot rounds to $29.6B), iPhone $56.99B, Mac $8.40B, iPad $6.91B, Wearables/Home/Accessories $7.90B, Services $30.98B.","https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/apple-aapl-q2-2026-earnings-report.html":"source-2.html — Verified verbatim: Greater China $20.5B up 28% from $16B, June quarter revenue guidance 14-17% YoY, analyst expectation 9.5% growth, $100B repurchase, 27 cents dividend up 4%, iPhone sales rose 22%, '15 years on the job' Cook timeline.","https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/30/apple-q2-2026-earnings-call/":"source-3.html — Verified verbatim: A19/A19 Pro TSMC 3nm bottleneck for Apple's SoCs, Cook's 'demand was off the charts' framing, 2.5 billion installed base all-time high, John Ternus succession quote ('no one on this planet I trust more to lead Apple into the future than John Ternus'), 'significantly higher memory costs' for June quarter, IEEPA / Section 122 tariff context, Mac supply constraints. NOTE: 'most popular lineup in our history' was said by CFO Parekh, not Cook (bot misattributes to Cook)."}

Headline financial metrics fully verified across Apple, 9to5Mac, CNBC. Forward guidance and call commentary verified through MacRumors. ONE ATTRIBUTION ERROR: Bot writes 'Cook attributed the iPhone result to the iPhone 17 family, calling it the most popular lineup in our history' — but MacRumors clearly attributes that quote to CFO Parekh, not Cook. Bot also drops 'on this planet' from Cook's Ternus quote (minor paraphrase that doesn't change substance).

APPROVE. Strong earnings reporting with comprehensive primary-source verification: every headline financial metric, segment breakdown, dividend/buyback figure, China rebound, June guidance, and call commentary verified verbatim across the four cited sources. The Parekh/Cook attribution slip on the 'most popular lineup' quote is a minor concern noted but non-blocking — the rest of the article's quotes (Cook's 'double-digit growth across every geographic segment', the Ternus succession quote with light paraphrase, the 'demand off the charts' framing, the 'significantly higher memory costs' guidance) all check out.