Global Equities Boosts PT on Apple (AAPL) to $130; New Era Just Beginning
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is on watch Monday as Global Equities Research raised its price target on the stock from $115 to $130, while maintaining an Overweight rating.
Analyst Trip Chowdhry noted the following key points on the call:
• Innovation is back at Apple and we have only just scratched the surface. It’s the beginning of a New Era
• Apple’s iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, Apple Pay, and more category products that are yet to come, create multi-yearmulti-products growth drivers for Apple
• Apple’s every new innovation comes with a Developer SDK and its own AppStore, which moves the whole Apple Ecosystem forward and guarantees its success
• Every new version of an Apple product is much better than its previous version and handsomely outsells the previous version.
• New Users, New Markets, Upgrades, Market-share Wins, and New Partnerships like the ones with IBM, Facebook, Twitter etc., are Apple’s revenue catalysts for sustained growth.
• Apple’s innovative Touch-ID + Secured Element (SE) on Device Chip + Critical Mass of users + Relationships with Payment ecosystem, are Apple’s secret to success with Apple Pay, which is a multi-year growth driver. Where competition has failed, Apple will be massively successful
• Apple’s invention of Swift Programing language helps developers easily create compelling applications faster, which further strengthens Apple’s ecosystem: more applications will lead to more Apple AppStore Revenues and a stronger ecosystem
• Apple’s relationship with IBM is going to drive iPhones and new iPads adoption within the enterprise, but that is probably a 3Q’2015 onwards growth story
• With the exit of Sony from PC business, Apple Mac is expected to increase its market share by ~3%
• New Apple iPhone6 is off to a very strong start
• Increasing estimates and increasing our 12 – 18 months price target on Apple to $130 from $115; based on a EV/OpInc multiple of 11x FY2015E Operating Income estimates of $59.2 Billion; and EV/OpInc multiple of 10x FY2016E Operating Income estimates of $64 Billion
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Apple closed at $100.96 yesterday.
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