Introduction This paper will analyze Apple’s history, product/services, major customers, major suppliers, and leadership and provide a synopsis of the overall company. This paper will also present a graph showing Apple’s stock history, and provide a conclusion of this history. Further, it will research and summarize two news events that occurred since 2012, the effect on the stock price, and how these influence my investment decision for my client. This paper will provide an overall financial analysis that highlights the key characteristics for investment. Further, it will indicate the accuracy and reliability of the data for making investment decisions. Finally, this paper will delineate my recommendation on whether it is good investment …show more content…
From the first color graphics, desktop publishing, iBook, iPod, iTunes, iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV, Apple continues to focus on its customers to provide the unique devices they crave in this technological environment. Apple Inc. has pioneered its way through the computer industry -- not once, but many times throughout its existence. It believes in pushing the limits of creativity to produce interesting and valuable products for society. After more than 30 years, it is undeniable that Apple has had a profound impact on technology, innovating and influencing not only how we use computers, but also the activities for which what we use them (Richardson & Terrell, 2008, para 2-8). Essentially, Apple’s products and services provide cutting edges advances in computers, reading devices, music devices (MP3 equivalent), cellular phones, and now television. Given this list of services and products, this company provides them to large and diverse groups of people, making Apple extremely marketable. Suppliers Apple’s major suppliers demonstrate the global nature of this company. With over 200 suppliers, its major ones include 3M, Panasonic, Intel Corp., Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Texas Instruments, and a host of other electronic companies across the globe. Truly a global company, these suppliers are based out of China, Japan, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States (Apple, …show more content…
Apple stock dropped noticeably after the release of the iPhone 5C and 5S in September 2013. At first, Apple's stock price started bouncing around nervously as Apple executives began introducing the new products, but by the next day the stock was down six percent to $466 per share (Gongloff 2013, para 2-6). Essentially, shareholders concerns on the price of these iPhones probably affected this drop. Given normal fluctuations on the stock market, this drop was not totally unexpected. It does necessarily present a realistic evaluation of Apple as a potential investment for my
Apple Computer Inc designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communication solutions. The return of Steve Jobs, the companies founder, as CEO has pulled the company’s stock price up 775-percent through his launch of innovative products such as the iMac computer line. On January 5, 2000, Jobs announced that he was dropping interim from his CEO title and taking the job full-time. With this news and Apple’s new products such as the iBook, a portable pc and Quick TV, an internet television access feature, Apple Computer is headed for success and is sure to increase their share in the computer market.
Access to distribution channels: Accessing major distribution channels might be challenging and it stands to be a significant barrier. Apple products are sold by third party retailers, Apple brick and mortar stores and on Apple’s website. It might not be too easy for a new entrant to convince a third-party retailer to prioritize its product over major products like Apple’s.
General Purpose: To give an overview of the company that is Apple Inc. and how it revolutionized our lives in the present times.
Looking at both companies’ outstanding shares, Apple has more outstanding shares of common stock on the open market than Microsoft. We can assume that Apple increases its stock issuance of outstanding shares to reduce the stock price thus making Apple’s stocks affordable (Miller-Nobles, Mattison and Matsumura 669).
Problems with the Board of Directors caused Jobs to leave Apple in 1985; as a result, the company descended into a downward spiral going from...
In fact, about this business one can easily write a few weighty books. Without exaggeration, we can say that Apple is one of the brightest technology companies that appeared in the 70s of the last century. Due to innovative technology and aesthetic design, Apple Inc. has established a unique reputation comparable to the cult in the consumer electronics industry. In 2014 the company was ranked first in the world by market capitalization. The concept of the brand is built around the slogan 'Think different’ (Linzmayer, 2004).
Since 1997, Steve Jobs has led the MacWorld Keynote event addressing the Apple flock, with pride and power. From a majestic, seemingly mystical, pulpit set atop a wide, dramatically lit stage, he has regaled stockholders, software developers, and enthusiastic consumers, numbering in the millions, with Apple's plans for the coming year. His intimidating sense of control has afforded him the kind of command over this ever-growing audience that seldom belongs to individuals who don't draw their power from Government or God. It is easy to understand why every product launch, press release, news leak, or any one of a countless list of maneuvers, can cause measurable, even drastic, shifts in the stock market. With great power comes great liability.
Apple sustains the process from the time at which investments in productive capabilities are made until the innovative products come onto the market.
Apple is “the world’s most colorful company,” Linzmayer, Owen . Apple Confidential 2.0. 1st. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, 2004. When looking at its meager beginnings Apple’s influence on the media could only be described as unique. Their product, style, and overall beliefs make the Apple Corporation a multi-billion dollar company with a general appeal for all ages. It is getting harder and harder to be an individual, so with Apple you can “rise above the norm” and be unique. Recently, this unique corporation has taken the media by storm, with their new line of products. Right along side these new products are a full line of new commercials to go along with them. These new commercials spawned from years of creative marketing done on Apple’s part. Studying the history of Apple is necessary to understanding their influence upon us today.
People love Apple products so much that they are willing to pay a higher price. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett first invested in Apple last year, and since this time he has doubled his investment. Because I knew I was only investing for two weeks, I felt the upcoming launch of Apple’s new iPhone X (released on November 3) would be boost a buzz of
Apple Inc.’s fundamental analysis includes objective, plan of action, market, and competing technology, and its governmental and operational traits which will be discussed in this section. They are as follows:
In the late 1990s, with the release of Windows, Apple was placed on the right track. Apple released its’ 20th Anniversary Macintosh in 1997 which marked the beginning of Apple’s return (Crofford, 2011). The next year, Apple released the IMac, which was a highly received by the public. Apple reported over $80 billion in cash on its’ last Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Emerson, 2011). Today Apple produces several different products including IPhone...
From 1980 to 1996, Apple’s competitive range in the PC industry was rocky. Although Apples products were unique and well built, they were overpriced compared to competing products from IBM and others. As competitor prices dropped, Apple prices stayed the same and the company saw a decline in sales as customers opted to purchase from its competitors. John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, took many steps to improve the company’s competitive advantage. One of those steps was to compete with price by producing a low-cost computers that appealed to a mass-market. The second step was to form an alliance with rivals IBM and Novel in order to create new operating systems and applications...
Apple Inc. was established by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976 as a computer designer, developer and seller company. However, the company shifted its focus from only personal computer to include other consumer electronics such as portable media player and mobile phone in 2007. Apple Inc becomes one of the most popular makers in its field since it seems that its popularity has increased according to a report on www.statista.com that Apple Inc’s products sales was generally increasing throughout the first quarter of 2006 to the first quarter of 2014. On the one hand, it has increased its revenue from about 14 billion US dollars to more than 170 billion US dollars in 2013. All in all, the company is highly successful corresponding to its products’ development and their sales growth in world’s market.
Apple management must bridge the perceived innovation gap with some sort of product breakthrough. Otherwise, it is reasonable for the company to accept lower Street expectations built upon the premise that while the company remains an exceptional production, distribution and branded business, the days of unparalleled enterprising innovation and leadership may be ebbing.