The US based company Apple, whose main production has been done outside America since years, now Apple has reportedly asked its major suppliers, for shifting their 15 to 30% of production outside of China. The reason behind this move is avoid the higher tariffs on exports, to the U.S.
It’s not an easy decision, because this move will deadly hit the American tech money, in terms of losing the profits and it will lead to wide range of job losses in China. According a
top research manager at IDC Taiwan, Sean Kao, who is also a tech business advisory service, many Taiwanese electronics suppliers along with the other tech manufacturers, have already moved outside of mainland China, with part of their assembly lines, he told.
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recent on-going trade war between U.S and China intensifies and the similar
changes have taken place for other China-based technology suppliers.
The insider ownership percentage is the key indicator, can be used by
investors, to measure the outlook of senior management has on their company.
Insider ownership for the AAPL is 0.07%. Institutional ownership refers to the
ownership stake in a company that is held by large financial organizations,
pension funds or endowments. The Institutional ownership for the AAPL is
60.90%.
Insider trading is the buying or selling of any publicly traded company’s stock
and this can be done by someone who has non-public, material information about
that AAPL. Insider trading can be illegal or legal depending on when the
insider makes the trade. It is illegal when the material information is still
non-public. The insider transactions of the company (6-month change in insider
ownerships) for the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is -4.05%.
Institutional ownership is the amount of a Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s available
stock owned by mutual or pension funds, insurance companies, investment firms,
private foundations, endowments or other large entities that actually manage
the funds on the behalf of others, so its an interesting element for the
traders to note it, and the Institutional ownership for the AAPL is -2.89%.
U.S traded Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock shed -0.91% on Friday and when
day-trade ended the stock finally concluded at $197.92 and number of shares
that changed hands during the day are 30.94 Million. The number of shares AAPL
stock currently held by all its shareholders are 4643.39 and floated shares,
the number of shares are available for trading in an open market on last
trading day are 4597.90. The average volume of shares for 3 months is 27719.17
and AAPL stock value has moved between $142.39 – 232.85 in last one year.
The Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported its last earnings on date 7/30/2019. The
Gross margin is the difference between the revenue and the cost of goods sold
(COGS), divided by revenue. In other words, Gross Margin is a percentage value,
while Gross Profit is a monetary value. The valuable gross margin for Apple
Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is 38.10% and the profit margin is 22.10% and the stock has
gained 25.47% in 2019 to date.
U.S. traded shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s monthly stock performance is
11.00%, the quarterly performance is 4.20%, the half year performance is
calculated as 26.75%. The yearly performance of AAPL is 7.47%.
The higher the volatility, the riskier the security. For example, when the
stock market rises and falls more than one percent over a sustained period of
time, it is called a “volatile” market, if the stock price stays
relatively stable, the security has low volatility. The Apple Inc.
(NASDAQ:AAPL) weekly volatility is measured as 1.42% and monthly volatility
measured as 1.88%.
Return on assets (ROA) is a main indicator of how profitable a company is
relative to its total assets. AAPL return on assets is 16.00%, the return on
equity (ROE) of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is 51.30%, while the most important
return on investment is calculates as a percentage and is typically used for
personal financial decisions, and AAPL return on investment is 26.60%.
The price to earnings ratio is 16.96, price to sales ratio is 3.56, and price
to book ratio is 8.74, price to cash per share ration is 11.47, price to free
cash flow is 20.14.
Analysts mean target price for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is $212.03 while
analysts mean recommendation is 2.20. The current share price indicates that
stock is -15.23% away from its one year high and is moving 39.38% ahead of its
52-week low. AAPL’s distance from 20 day simple moving average is 3.18% and
distance from 50-Day simple moving average is 1.91%.
