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Wells Fargo Out Bullish on Apple (AAPL) Seeing Enterprise Mac Adoption at an Inflectinon Point

February 9, 2022 8:39 AM EST
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Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers reiterated an Overweight rating and $205.00 price target on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) noting Macs could be at a point of inflection for adoption within the enterprise / commercial market. This is very significant since Mac revenue only accounts for ~10% of total revenue. Three reasons are cited for the thesis:
1) Apple's ability to leverage the proliferation of the internally-developed M1-series (Arm-based) processors across its Mac lineup; common silicon / OS platform across product portfolio
2) Expanding adoption of as-a-service offerings (e.g., Apple Business Essentials to become fully available for SMBs w/ up to 500 employees in spring2022)
3) Demographics and expanding support for choose-your-device employee optionality

The analyst stated "several anecdotes from large tech companies on the performance& productivity improvements offered by M1 Macs, specifically for software development workloads, where Apple punches above its weight (e.g., ~30% of devs on Stack Overflow use MacOS vs. Apple's overall ~8-9% PC ship share). Internal benchmarks from companies such as Square and Reddit found that the M1 MacBook Pro reduced app build times(code compiling) by more than 50% relative to the prior year’s Intel-based MacBook Pro.When this productivity increase is scaled across a large enterprise/organization with hundreds of developers, the savings could justify upgrading entire fleets of Macs, perhaps sooner than dictated by the typical 3-4 yr. upgrade cycle. We estimate that the Mac installed base could be ~140M today, including ~55-60M commercial Macs (est.~40% of the installed base). Other companies that have publicly announced upgrades toM1 Macs include Uber, Shopify, SAP, and Mass Mutual."

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Shares of Apple closed at $174.83 yesterday.



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