BUSINESS
Kursrückgang der Apple Aktie erschüttert die US Wirtschaft
January 4, 2019 -
Die Umsatzwarnung von Apple aufgrund schwacher Verkäufe in China ließ den Aktienkurs um 10 Prozent fallen. Marktkapitalisierung des Technologieriesen liegt um knapp 40 Prozent unter dem Spitzenwert von $1,1 Billionen im Oktober.
Since 2016, when global sales of Apple’s iPhones slowed by $18.3 billion, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook responded by increasing the smartphone’s average sales price. Between 2017 and 2018 the iPhone was hiked from $618 to $793, while a top-of-the-range iPhone XS Max cost a staggering $1,449.
Apple’s “services,” which includes music streaming, the App Store and iCloud, showed an increase of $12.9bn, and “other products” — Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods — jumped by $6.3bn since 2016. While this $19.2bn jump in revenues covers the iPhone losses, they represent less than 12 per cent of iPhone sales.
Apple also receives around $9bn from Alphabet Inc. which pays Apple to make Google the default search engine in the iPhone’s Safari web browser.