Tim Cook’s last earnings call comes at momentous time for Apple with stock at record
📰 source: cnbc_topnews · 💼 business
tim cook's final earnings call as apple ceo lands the same week apple hit a $5 trillion market cap and overtook nvidia as the world's most valuable company. but behind the record stock, up 25% this year, apple faces a memory crunch and price hikes on ipads and macs—some models up by over $1,000—and still hasn't launched a redesigned siri. cook steps down sept. 1, becoming executive chairman, handing the reins to john ternus, a 25-year hardware veteran. ternus will face investor questions on thursday after fiscal q3 results. apple's ai strategy lags: it licenses tech from google and had an openai partnership that fell apart, leading to a lawsuit. while peers spend over $100 billion on ai capex, apple spends just $11 billion. analysts see price hikes boosting revenue but demand risk in december. apple also tweaked its cash policy, potentially freeing funds for ai.
why it matters: apple transitions leadership at a moment of record valuation but memory-supply and ai strategy challenges loom.
source: cnbc_topnews
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