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by | June 29, 2017 · 11:57 pm

iPhone is now 10 years old and on January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled a product that changed the world

iPhone is now 10 years old. On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled a product that changed the world. A few months later, on June 29, 2007 iPhone made its way into stores. Apple have changed dramatically since then.

Since the first generation iPhone first began selling on June 29, 2007, Apples market Cap has grown from $104,3 Billion to $760 Billion. Growing from the 26<sup>th</sup> largest company on the S&amp;P 500 to the 1<sup>st</sup>. Shares of Apple have soared 744% since the iPhones debut.

 

 

Apple has sold just over 1,2 Billion iPhones in the last 10 years.

Earlier this week the European Commission fined Google a $2,7 Billion, claiming it denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. They also claimed that Google denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefit of innovation.

What Europe should do is stop complaining and start to innovate. If there was a better search engine out there they will have competed with Google. The same can be said about the smart phone market too.

I acquired my first mobile phone in 1992 and it was a Ericsson which is a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

The company had a 35% market share in the 2G/3G/4G mobile network infrastructure market in 2012. They were ruling the smart phone market in the early 90`s, but something happened.

Nokia from Finland came into the market and ruled the world with their new smart phones from 1998 to 2012. That`s 14 years on top. Not bad for a company founded by Knut Fredrik Idestam in 1865.

Keep in mind that both are European companies, but something happened.

Steve Jobs changed the world 10 years ago, on June 29, 2007. He launched Apple`s iPhone which is celebrating a 10 year anniversary. In 2007, iPhone 2G were launched with a 16GB storage and 8-hour battery.

Ten years later, iPhone 7 Plus were launched with a 256GB storage and 21-hours battery. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said on April 29, 2007, that “There`s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No Chance.”

For how long will Apple continue to stay on top?

 

 

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by | June 20, 2017 · 11:31 pm

Investors are concerned about Snapchat`s future

Snap Inc, formerly Snapchat Inc, is a camera company. The company`s flagship product, Snapchat, is a camera application that helps people to communicate through short videos and images as a Snap.

As of December 31, 2016, on an average, 158 million people used Snapchat every day to Snap with family, watch Stories from friends, see events from around the world, and explore curated content from publishers.

The market cap of Snap has fallen dramatically from about $30 billion to $20 billion.

 

 

Many investors are now concerned about Snaps DAUs. Not only that; Snapchat has a lot of competitors and to understand that you have to see it with marketers glasses. They are a copycat and have much lower margins than their competitors.

Facebook has the same application and makes Snap tools like a «me too» product. What they need now is International growth, but why should people use Snap`s tools in an already developed market?

Advertisers spend their money on Facebook and YouTube because they know it works. If Snap want to compete with them they need to burn some cash. A lot of cash. What they need is to look overseas to grab more teens.

Snap dropped down -3,19% on Tuesday and its valuation is about $20 Billion, trading at 17,31. The stock is back to its IPO price and it’s headed for a cruel summer for Snap. In comparison, Twitter`s market cap is about $12 Billion and I assume you know the rest of that story.

Investors are worried about Snaps competition. Especially from Facebook`s Instagram which is the same kind of its popular features.

Snap opened at $24 on its initial day of trading back in March, but surged 44% by the close. They started the IPO price at $17 and now we are back to the start again. At $17.

Barclays, Citygroup and J.P Morgan have lowered the price target on Snap.

 

 

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by | June 8, 2017 · 2:57 pm

Alibaba with a massive Monster revenue growth of nearly 50% in 2017

Alibaba went public in 2014. The company is one of the world`s biggest with a market cap of 308,96 billion dollars. Its businesses consist of core commerce, cloud computing, mobile media and entertainment, and other innovation initiatives.

Alibaba will go straight up from start today. Reason? The company is forecasting massive Monster revenue growth of nearly 50 percent in 2017. The target implies sales of up to $34,5 billion dollars, and this is the biggest underlying rise so far since its IPO in 2014.

 

 

The stock has gone straight up since its IPO in 2014 and the company is near its all-time high. Some investors are bullish but others are sceptical and warns of odd accounting and an opaque corporate structure.

Investors are divided in ways only stocks with strong charts and a shaky fundamentals tend to do.

To put the company in perspective, Amazones market cap is $478,81 billion. Amazons founder Jeff Bezos knew that the key to success in the market in electronic commerce was not to focus only on a bookstore.

Alibaba is more than a retailer. It also has Taobao, Tmall.com and Alipay to name a few. Over the past few years, it owns established businesses across commerce, cloud computing and media. So, the business model is very similar to Amazon.

Alibaba is the largest e-commerce player and cloud-computing provider in China. An exceptionally strong media empire that is underestimated with a strong growth outlook. Tmall TV is expanding. So are UCWeb, YouKu Tudou, Alibaba Music and Alisports.com in the category Media Entertainment.

Dimensional Fund Advisors LP purchased a new stake in shares of Alibaba Group Holding during the fourth quarter worth about $171,085,000. 35,17 percent of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Alibaba`s share price is $125,64 before the opening on Thursday. Goldman Sachs Group Inc reissued a «conviction-buy» rating and set a $135,00 price target on shares of Alibaba in a report on Friday, March 17th.

Watch out for Alibaba from start on Thursday. It will skyrocket.

 

 

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by | May 19, 2017 · 11:59 pm

Aston Martin is planning to go public in London next year

Aston Martin is planning to go public as soon as possible, and it can happen already next year. If that happens, Aston Martin will be listed in London and not in New York. It seems like Aston Martin is following Ferrari`s success.

Ferrari went public in 2015 and the stock is up over 60 percent since then. Aston Martin is a luxury brand just like Ferrari and they have both similar vehicles and price strategy. An initial public offering can be very profitable for Aston Martin.

 

 

Aston Martin is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. The brand was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Their sport cars are regarded as a British cultural icon.

Aston Martin is associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DBS model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrent as purveyor of motor cars to HRH the Prince of Wales since 1982.

Aston Martin`s valuation could be similar to Ferrari which is about $2,3 billion pounds. The company has 1,850 employees and a revenue of £593,5 million last year.

The company said a new factory in Wales will produce a sport utility vehicle which is called DBX, and that will be a «practical and family friendly» vehicle and not a luxurious and fast one. They will also expand with a push into yachts, apartments and handbags.

Aston Martin`s fourth-quarter results jumped and they shipped 155,000-pound DB11 models. The firm said they expects a full-year EBITDA to increase to 165 million pounds which is a great jump from 101 million pounds last year.

The main shareholders are Investindustrial (37,5% stake), with Kuwaiti companies Investment Dar and Adeem Investment Co.

 

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by | April 19, 2017 · 4:30 pm

EU passenger car registrations increased +11,2% which is an all-time high

EU is selling cars like never before. According to ACEA, EU passenger car registrations increased significantly, totaling 1,891,583 units, which is up +11,2 percent in March this year. This is an all-time high.

All the big five markets recorded very strong performances during the month, with Italy (+18,2%), Spain (+12,6%) and Germany (+11,4%) posting double-digit percentage gains, followed by the UK (+8,4%) and France (+7,0%).

 


This level of growth is mainly due to Easter falling in March last year and in April this year. The demand for passenger cars from January to March 2017 increased by 8,4 percent, totaling 4,141,269 units.

Italy (+11,9%), Spain (+7,9%), Germany (+6,7%), the United Kingdom (+6,2%) and France (+4,8%) all saw their markets grow during the first three months of the year, contributing to the overall upturn in the EU market.

The growth in car sales rose «only» 2,2 percent in February this year. The demand fell in several big markets and sales of volume brands Volkswagen and Peugeot slumped. Volkswagen AG, which is the biggest manufacturer, continued to lose market share, falling down to 10,4 percent.

Volkswagen new car sales fell 6,6 percent in February, and the sales of the larger Volkswagen group, which includes Audi, Porche, Skoda and SEAT, fell 1,1 percent.

The sports car brand Jaguar in the Jaguar Land Rover Group was again the fastest growing automaker in Europe. New Jaguar sales surged about 52 percent in February, which is much better than their competitors like BMW, Audi, Daimler AG`s Mercedes and Porsche.

 

 

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