Apple: Weakness Far From Over As Yield Pressures Rise

seekingalpha2021-02-23

SummaryApple's underperformance since its stellar Q1 earnings beat highlights the optimism that was already priced into the stock.The break below uptrend support from the March lows is significant in ...

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naan
2021-02-24
naan
Unfortunately...
SolidSnake
2021-02-23
SolidSnake
Who is vested in apple like me and continue to believe in the matured growth of apple? ?
- Cheeky:
  As of now, it is still on uptrend.
- SolidSnake:
  The issue is we cant see where thr boat is heading to
- Cheeky:
  I am on the boat as well.
therealp
2021-02-23
therealp
comment
edwinsercl
2021-02-23
edwinsercl
Load up
- therealp:
  nice
STAN13
2021-02-23
STAN13
???
需要一点点运气
2021-02-23
需要一点点运气
Apple always so popular. Overrated???
- Hamsterwan:
  haha

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Apple is already becoming a victim of its own success as a lot of people already have iPhones and they tend to last a long time.Source: BloombergWe fully expect Apple to continue growing revenues and profits, but we do not believe extrapolating one quarter's earnings report provides a good measure of the sustainable growth rate. With 2020 earnings roughly 6% of total SPX earnings, Apple will almost certainly face the impact of the law of large numbers. Extrapolating recent growth rates over the long term results in unfeasible outcomes. For instance, Apple's profits are expected to grow at 10% per year over the long term, according to Bloomberg.If SPX profits grow at their trend growth rate of 4%, this would mean that Apple's share of total SPX earnings would rise from the current level of 6% to 18% by 2041. Even at 7% growth Apple's share of total SPX profits would almost double to 11% by 2041. Historical precedents do not bode well for such growth outperformance.The following chart shows the correlation between the total sales of the largest companies in the U.S. by market cap over the past 20 years and subsequent sales growth. On the x-axis is the combined sales as a share of GDP of the top 10 U.S. companies by market cap, excluding energy companies due to the volatile nature of their sales. On the y-axis is the combined annual sales growth of these companies over the subsequent 10 years relative to nominal GDP growth. There is a strong tendency for sales and profit growth to fall as a company's size increases relative to the size of the economy.Source: BloombergRising Bond Yields Present A Major Headwind To ValuationsThroughout the decline in government bond yields over the past year investors have seen Apple's stock as an alternative to government bonds due to its high profit margins and scope for dividends to rise over the long term allowing cash flows to exceed those from bonds. The ongoing rise in Treasury yields is beginning to undermine Apple's appeal as a substitute to government bonds, triggering a rise in the required dividend yield.Apple's trailing dividend yield of 0.64% compares to a 2.00% yield on the 20-year UST and a 2.71% yield on Apple's bonds maturing in 2041. This means that in order for Apple's stock to outperform its bonds over the next two decades investors will require dividends to grow at roughly 2.0% per yearandthe dividend yield remain at current low levels. The trouble is that even a small rise in the required dividend yield as far out as 2041 could wipe out years of dividend income.For instance, even if dividends manage to grow at 7% over the next two decades, a mere 1 percentage point increase in the dividend yield from 0.64% to 1.64%, either due to a rise in bond yields or otherwise, would result in a capital loss equivalent to almost all of the excess dividend income received over the next 20 years relative to Apple's bonds. 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