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Th","content":"<p>Industry-wide growth of over 30% in first quarter shipments, pricing power and market share gain. This key product segment could impress investors in the earnings season and boost Apple stock.</p>\n<p>Third-party research data on calendar first quarter personal computing sales has started to pour in. Depending on who is asked,IDCorGartner, PC shipments have increased by an impressive 32% to 55% in the March period.</p>\n<p>Apple stock could benefit from what I believe will likely be outstanding Mac segment revenue growth that might reach 50% in fiscal second quarter, if not more.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8b822ed28699ac4889f20c09ed050e12\" tg-width=\"1208\" tg-height=\"598\"><span>Figure 1: MacBook Pro 13\"</span></p>\n<p><b>Industry-wide themes in PC</b></p>\n<p>At the personal computer industry level, the first three months of 2021 have benefitted primarily from dismal sales in the comparable 2020 quarter. Keep in mind that January through March of last year marked the initial stages of the COVID-19 crisis, and PC sales fell off a cliff at first.</p>\n<p>It is against a lowered bar that first quarter 2021 PC shipments have likely dazzled. To be fair, however, easy comps do not fully explain why recent sales have impressed. IDC’s research manager elaborates:</p>\n<blockquote>\n “Unfulfilled demand from the past year has carried forward into the first quarter and additional demand brought on by the pandemic has also continued to drive volume. 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Therefore, it is fair to say that PC sales probably do not carry as much weight in determining Apple stock price as does the iPhone, for example.</p>\n<p>However, the Mac may have performed extraordinarily well this time. In revenue growth terms, I believe that fiscal second period will likely be the best quarter for the segment in the past decade, at the very least. See graph below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6ccacd426c33df7f30fe998d6e8fc224\" tg-width=\"880\" tg-height=\"492\"><span>Figure 2: Mac revenue growth since fiscal 2019.</span></p>\n<p>Should Mac growth reach my projection above, for example, I estimate that the segment alone could be responsible for about 6 percentage points of top-line increase to the entire company’s sales. 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