Research archive for AAPL

Last week, Apple announced a new program to allow consumers to make repairs to some iPhone models. What!? Surely this is a joke.

Have you ever wondered how much the music streaming companies pay artists per stream? Well, this information was top secret until recently. Apple released a statement detailing how much it pays artists and publishers, forcing other music streaming companies to do the same.

Last week Apple was among a long list of companies that reported third-quarter results. The current global semiconductor chip shortage meant that their sales were a bit lower than market expectations. Despite the miss, Apple still managed to increase revenue by 29%, thanks to growth across all product categories.

When you're a $2 trillion market cap business, making over $100 billion in profit a year, how do you get bigger? One answer is to move away from outsourcing. That's exactly what Apple is doing by creating its own chips. These chips are streets ahead of the competition, and making them in-house improves profit margins.

Apple has done a phenomenal job, creating new products and services to diversify away from being a one-trick pony. The iPhone remains its major contributor to both revenues and profits but it's services business is growing fast and minted another new revenue record in the most recent set of results.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed-down the decision in the trial between Apple and Epic Games, and issued an injunction saying Apple must no longer prohibit developers from providing links or other communications that direct users away from Apple in-app purchasing.

You may have noticed that many big companies are not generous dividend payers these days. A few, like Amgen and Johnson & Johnson still dish out quarterly dividends at a yield above 2.5% per annum, but they are the exception. Others like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Tesla pay nothing at all.

Tim Cook is celebrating his 10th anniversary as CEO of Apple. He took over from co-founder Steve Jobs on 24 August, 2011. Jobs died soon after from pancreatic cancer; RIP.

Yesterday I wrote about Apple's record quarter, but I didn't have the perfect picture to sum up the numbers. Now I do!

Last night our favourite luxury goods company, Apple, reported the biggest profits for a June quarter in its 45 years of existence. Every single product line grew more than 12% year-on-year. iPhone revenues grew 49.8%, which is exactly what you want from a business unit contributing almost half of group sales.

Apple are very good at making accessories that are used alongside their core products. Think of all the Apple chargers, power cords, earphones and phone covers that Apple fans must buy.

Apple is trading near an all-time high of $143 a share, which is nice. It's our largest holding, our clients own over $52 million of those. That's almost R750 million worth, for those who are counting.

We often talk about how massive companies compete against each other. But leading tech giants also do a lot business together. Did you know that Apple is Google Cloud's biggest client? When you pay Apple a monthly iCloud fee for your data storage, you are actually using Google.

Tim Cook once said that Apple's greatest contribution to mankind will be in healthcare. It is a bold and exciting statement. If the company is to live up to that promise, the Apple watch will be a key component.

I'm an Apple MacBook Pro user, and I'm in the market for a new one. My current workhorse was made in mid-2015 and runs on an Intel i7 chip. It works pretty well, despite being six years old. Every now and then it lags a bit.