The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Apple on Monday beat Wall Street expectations, driven by early demand for its iPhone 18 Pro lineup and price increases that helped offset the blow of rising memory-chip costs. A Reuters dispatch to The Globe says the company's fiscal fourth-quarter sales were $114.48-billion, above analyst estimates of $113.39-billion (all figures U.S.). Profit for the fourth quarter was $2.10 a share, above analyst estimates of $1.99 a share even when excluding five cents a share from tariff refunds. Apple shares were up 0.8 per cent in after-hours trading. The results come as Apple experiments with a string of firsts under new chief executive officer John Ternus, who took over in September. After nearly two decades of launching most of its new iPhones each fall, Apple this year is spacing those out, with iPhone Pro and Duo models shipping this year and other iPhone models expected in 2027. Apple also released a bevy of new non-iPhone products in the current holiday shopping quarter, including its first touchscreen laptops and its first smart-home hub. Apple in recent weeks has grappled with customer reports of cracked screens on the iPhone Duo, the company's first foldable phone.