iPhone 5s: forward thinking, iPhone 5: the biggest yet
Employees: 110 000, globally
Fiscal year ends: last Saturday of September
Headquarter: Cupertino, California
Products: designs, manufactures & markets mobile communication
devices, personal computers & music players, sells a variety of related software, services, accessories, networking solutions and third-party digital content and applications.
Rating (long-term): Rating (long-term): AA+(S&P), Aa1(Moody’s)
Competitors: Samsung, Google, Amazon, Lenovo, Microsoft
With innovative hardware, software, and services that deliver an amazing user experience, Apple empowers today’s modern workforce to do something truly great.
Strategy: is broad differentiation.
Strategic objectives: continuous innovation, Apple must develop innovative products to stand out against mojor competitors.
As a result, total R&D expense was $8.1 billion, $6.0 billion and $4.5 billion in 2015, 2014 and 2013 respectively.
Apple’s focused product portfolio and R&D initiatives aim at long-term success and survival.
Area: the company’s domestic and international net sales accounted for 35% and 65%, respectively, of total net sales.
Based on the analysis of the fundamentals, AAPL seems to be one of the best-value IT names in the market.
Apple’s earnings dropped in the most recent quarter on a year-over-year basis but revenue and EPS remain very solid.
Profitability is High+:
The Company paid a total of $11.4 billion and $11.0 billion in dividends during 2015 and 2014 respectively.
The dividend growth over the past three years has been solid and the company has shown a dedication to returning capital to shareholders.
Additionally, buybacks create indefinite dividend growth potential.
Financial health is High:
Apple still sits on a pile of cash, i.e. solvency ratios are favorable.
Valuation price: $144.87 => has 51% potential upside based on fundamentals.
Last stock splits: 7:1 (09.06.2014), 2:1 (28.02.2005), 2:1 (21.06.2000)
Share repurchase: positive, $175 billion share repurchase program that is expected to be completed by March 2018. The company’s share repurchase programs have ensured a steady decrease in share count.
History
1976: April 1, Apple was founded
1977: January 3, Apple was incorporated in the state of California
1977: April 16, Apple II was presented to the public at the first West Coast Computer Faire
1980: May 19, Apple III was released
1980: December 12, Apple’s initial public offering at $22.00 per share.
1983: October, Macintosh 128k was announced to the press
1987: February 19, Apple registered the “Apple.com”
1987: May 11, Apple issued its first corporate stock dividend
1996: December 10, Apple purchased Steve Jobs’ company, NeXT
1997: July 9, Gil Amelio was ousted as CEO of Apple, Jobs stepped in as the interim CEO
1997: November 10, Apple introduced the Apple Store
2005: April 29, Apple released Mac OS X “Tiger” to the general public
2007: January 9, Apple Computer, Inc. shortened its name to simply Apple Inc.
2007: June 29, The first version of the iPhone became publicly available
2008: July 11, iPhone 3G became available
2009: June 8, Apple announced the iPhone 3GS
2010: January 27, Apple iPad was announced
2011: February 10, iPhone 4 was made available
2011: March 2, Apple unveiled iPad 2
2011: August 24, Steve Jobs resigned his position as CEO
2014: September 9, Apple announced the Apple Watch
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