“To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have a spent a trillion”
-Mitch McConnell
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On August 2nd, Apple became the first publicly traded company to hit $1 trillion in market cap. This came after Q3 earnings crushed expectations. Previously, the company only needed a share price of $203.45 to hit the historic milestone. However, after the company announced $100 billion worth of share buybacks, the price needed to hit was $207.05, which was met.
So why was Q3 so great? Well, there were many factors which contributed to Apple becoming a trillion dollar company. For starters, expected EPS was $2.18 and Apple achieved $2.34. The company was also expected to have revenue of $52.34 billion, which they truly had $53.3 billion. Finally, although iPhone sales didn’t grow as expected, many of their products did, including wearables, which grew more than 60%.
Apple stated that fourth quarter revenue will be between $60 billion to $62 billion. This is beating previous expectations of $59.47 billion. However, with more than $9.55 billion in revenue coming from China, upcoming tariffs could take a toll on stock price.
As noted, AAPL has been up this past week.
