The company has not been able to include Apple Intelligence with its smartphones in China. He had already been fighting the country against local competitors, and according to Counterpoint Research, iphone sales fell 18% in China in the fourth quarter. The smartphone sales of the Huawei opponent, meanwhile, increased by 15.5% during the quarter.

Apple initially saw strong iPhone sales in China after he released his latest version. However, its AI is not approved in China and must find a local IA partner to incorporate its technology to run Apple Intelligence in China. Apple mainly competes in the premium smartphone market in China, so the lack of the latest technology has left him behind competitors.

Out of smartphone sales, Apple also faces another great risk related to the Alphabet Antimonopoly case. Alphabet has been paying Apple about $ 20 billion a year as part of its income distribution model for Google to be the default search engine in its safari browser. These revenue is also a practically pure margin, which fall directly to operating income. With Alphabet, losing his anti -timonopoly case and this endangered agreement, the impact that he could have on this flow of income is still very much in the air, as the case could lead to significant changes. However, any impact is likely to be in years, as the ruling is appeared and both companies have reason to try to protect what is currently.

Apple’s actions have experienced great multiple expansion in recent years. Its Pre-Blessed Relationship (P/E) has tripled essentially 12 times to 36 times, while its anticipated P/E P/E estimates of the current fiscal year is about 30 times.

Part of this multiple expansion can be attributed to the change to the income of high -margin services, as these companies tend to have multiple highest multiple than hardware companies. Apple has also shown to be a stable business that tends to have a slightly predictable replacement cycle, though it extends.

That said, in the hope that an iPhone update cycle will decrease and that stock will see a great multiple expansion in the last six years, I think it would be smart to bring some benefits from actions.

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