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Inflation Drives Apple Market Cap To One Trillion Dollars

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Apple’s market cap hit 109  dollars today.

Impressive but no pom-poms here at Global Macro Monitor.  We would be more impressed if Apple’s main businesses were doing better and the company were more focused on electrical engineering rather than financial engineering.

Don’t get us long we were The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders for Apple stock pre-2015.   Check the record.

Just the data, ma’am

The table below illustrates that almost all of Apple’s revenue growth was driven by inflation, that is the price increase for iPhone.   Unit sales growth for the company’s three major products  – iPhone, iPad, and Mac – were either flatish year over year or negative.  This has been the case now for several years.

If Apple were not able to significantly raise iPhone prices (mainly through the upgrade to the X) and only grow revenues by the device’s unit sales growth of 0.67 percent,  Apple’s total revenues wound have been about one third of what was posted, or 6.7 percent versus 17.3 percent.

One thousand dollar smart phones are not a sustainable proposition, in our opinion, folks.   China, or somebody, will, or already is producing a quality equivalent for $250m or will sometime soon.

Yes, yes, and yes, still not a Porsche.   We get it.

Our sense, however, millennials, and the youngers, are not as into conspicuous consumption as boomers are.

An iPhone is not peacock feathers, folks, at least we don’t think so.  Does owning  an Apple iPhone really signal superior genes to the opposite sex?  Make sure to click on the peacock feathers link to understand what the hell we are talking about!

An Omen Of Coming Inflation?

Furthermore, Apple’s inflation driven earnings may be an omen of a larger inflation coming to the overall economy.  Of course, the  iPhone X was a much better quality phone and will almost certainly be hedonically adjusted by the BLS so it won’t show up in the CPI.

Ridiculous.   Real wages fall as consumers purchase higher priced items, regardless if the camera phone has a better resolution.

But, hey, if Apple can charge $1,000 for a phone why not ________   fill in the blank for your company and seller of choice.

Great Products, But What Have You Done For Us Lately?

We love Apple products, have loved the stock in the past,  and have a double digit number of its devices in our household.

We will like the stock much more when they are driven more by electrical engineering (product innovation) rather than financial engineering (stock buybacks).

The New Supply Side Economics of Asset Markets 

Finally, the limiting supply (shifting supply curve left) induced surge in Apple price shares due to buybacks is endemic of today’s asset markets, in general.  Most notable in risk-free bonds — restricting supply through QE, though that’s slowly changing;   housing  — all cash investors and private equity, now the largest holder of single family homes, and gauging renters;   and stocks through massive buybacks.

Moreover,  there is feedback loop buying bias induced by the move to passive investing.

These are a few of the major factors why these overvalued asset markets are so much harder than the asset bubbles of Christmas past.

Apple, The Stock

Toppy.  Selling the hype and waiting for the “new, new thang.”   If they build it, I will come.

Overall market action bullish.   No sellers, until they sell.  Today’s action is a signal no-liquidity August has arrived.

Stay tuned.


Source: https://macromon.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/inflation-drives-apple-market-cap-to-one-trillion-dollars/


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