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The real magic is their effect on Apple’s earnings. Because unlike innovations such as Face ID—the facial recognition system used to unlock iPhones—the chip and camera improvements bring a dual benefit to the Cupertino-based company: Not only do consumers pay a premium for the new features, they also usually end up needing more storage to make the most of those features. And storage, it turns out, is an unbelievable money-printing machine. In fact, it might even be Apple’s secret weapon.\nThe next iPhone lineup looks set to turbocharge that approach. Alongside other camera upgrades, the handsets will include a higher-quality video format called ProRes when they’re released in the next few weeks,Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, as well as more chip updates.\nWith every improvement in image quality comes a commensurate increase in storage requirements. The new photo format that Apple added to the iPhone last year, brandedProRaw, is as much as 12 times larger than the standard JPEG. Bigger video files will exacerbate the trend. (That’s especially bad news for those of us whose casual snaps already take up a slightly embarrassing 36 gigabytes.)\nConsumers’ need for more storage is enormously profitable. Where it costs the consumer $100 to add 128 gigabytes of storage, Apple is unlikely to pay more than $20 for the same chip. If you’d prefer to store the data remotely, Apple’s iCloud offering enjoys similar profit margins. Besides, those who have already made the choice to opt for a $1,099 iPhone 12 Pro Max may be less concerned about ponying up more cash for extra capacity.\nFaster download speeds and greater processing power have the same effect. 5G lets you download more data more quickly, but you need the capacity on your device to store it, as do the whiz-bang games enabled by faster chips.\nApple is reaping the rewards. Its revenue is expected to jump 33%, to an amazing $365 billion, this year, though of course only a slice of that comes from additional memory options. But it shows how canny investment in improving the right technologies can have a multiplicative effect on profit even in the absence of blockbuster new features or flagship products—the average selling price of an iPhone jumped from $748 at the end of 2019 to $938 this March.\nSo while we wait for Apple to eventually reveal its Next Big Thing, whether in autonomous cars, smart glasses, or something else entirely, in the meantime the world’s most valuable company is showing just how profitable its game of inches has become.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":276,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":375044450,"gmtCreate":1619266975870,"gmtModify":1634287364091,"author":{"id":"3581289582050002","authorId":"3581289582050002","name":"CJtrading","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dac7c27cc78e75b6a1347e71199fda88","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3581289582050002","authorIdStr":"3581289582050002"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Buy","listText":"Buy","text":"Buy","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/375044450","repostId":"2129095352","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2129095352","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1619184019,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2129095352?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-23 21:20","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Should you buy Microsoft stock? Here are the key numbers to look at now","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2129095352","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"These are the key metrics for and stock valuation for Microsoft.\nHalo Infinite, developed by Microso","content":"<p>These are the key metrics for and stock valuation for Microsoft.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cb47fe42a76d552195e0652645da1f99\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"709\"><span>Halo Infinite, developed by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. (Microsoft Corp.)</span></p>\n<p>If you are thinking about buying shares of Microsoft Corp., or already own them, you need to understand key metrics and issues related to the company.</p>\n<p>The numbers, below, show how Microsoft <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">$(MSFT)$</a> stacks up against competitors, and where its strengths and weaknesses lie. Keep in mind that no two companies are alike -- even rivals don't compete in every space. Investors need to do their own research to make informed long-term decisions.</p>\n<p><b>Key dynamics</b></p>\n<p>Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO in February 2014 and dramatically changed the direction of this software giant co-founded by Bill Gates, Microsoft has become a key player in cloud computing. That move has paid off handsomely for investors. The stock is up 680% since then, including dividends, more than four times that of the S&P 500 Index .</p>\n<p>There may be more outperformance ahead for the stock because growth remains so robust, despite the size of this company. Microsoft has a $1.9 trillion market capitalization. Often companies of this size have a hard time posting fast growth simply because they are so large. Yet this 46-year-old software company put up 16.7% sales growth in the fourth quarter.</p>\n<p>Microsoft's server products and cloud offerings, a $41.4 billion business last year, grew 25.8% in the fourth quarter. The hottest product line is Azure cloud services. Customers like Azure because it helps them become more productive and competitive. So, they will continue to join up, and expand their usage once they sign on.</p>\n<p>\"We are witnessing the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" Nadella has said.</p>\n<p>Already at $29 billion a year, Azure sales are growing 50% annually, estimates Goldman Sachs analyst Kash Rangan. (Microsoft does not break out the numbers or offer projections for Azure.) Microsoft also offers artificial intelligence software; Microsoft Office suite products like Word, XL and Outlook; popular video-game hardware; the LinkedIn professional networking site; and, of course, Windows. You can see that four of those business lines are growing at 10% or more, but Windows and search are sluggish.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/39b29ebf285f8b1bdff7a30678ed3d03\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"962\"><span>(COMPANY FILING)</span></p>\n<p><b>Geographic reach</b></p>\n<p>Microsoft does half its business outside the U.S. This is good for investors because during times of robust, synchronized global growth like we see now, emerging economies tend to grow much faster than the U.S.</p>\n<p>\"We are investing to bring our cloud services to more customers announcing seven new data center regions in Asia, Europe and Latin America,\" Nadella has announced.</p>\n<p>A vulnerability is that a stronger dollar would hurt Microsoft, since this would reduce the value of foreign earnings as they get exchanged for greenbacks.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/888b5218048ba9cd41f3c78463e77136\" tg-width=\"1146\" tg-height=\"504\"><span>(COMPANY FILING)</span></p>\n<p><b>Profitability</b></p>\n<p>Overall, Microsoft isn't growing as fast as many of its competitors. But the popularity of its cloud products and services supports superior profit margins. For investors, this makes up for the relatively slower sales growth.</p>\n<p>\"Microsoft has pulled ahead of the pack with a state-of-the-art cloud platform,\" says J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Murphy.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8e55242f7594f23a1911381f4db6228d\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"503\"><span>(FACTSET)</span></p>\n<p><b>Cash and cash flow</b></p>\n<p>Companies with lots of cash and solid cash flow have an edge because this helps them avoid the need to rely on banks for dilutive capital raises. It puts them in control of their own destinies. Microsoft uses its cash to buy back stock and pay a 0.87% dividend yield. But it's also tapping the $132 billion cash hoard to grow through acquisitions.</p>\n<p>For example, Microsoft recently announced the purchase of Nuance Communications, which gives Microsoft solid inroads into the health-care sector. Nuance offers artificial intelligence <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AI\">$(AI)$</a> used in the sector to analyze conversations and help providers communicate with patients.</p>\n<p>The risk is that Microsoft might make bad acquisitions and squander cash, which might otherwise have been better used by returning it to shareholders. As examples, Microsoft blundered in its purchases of Nokia's mobile-phone business and the digital-marketing-services company aQuantive. This is why many investors prefer that companies simply return cash to shareholders via dividends and buybacks, rather than risk wasting it.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7a3630382d2d6e12a1242ec6697cb950\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"467\"><span>(FACTSET)</span></p>\n<p><b>Moat</b></p>\n<p>Investing great Warren Buffett loves companies with protective moats. Moats create pricing power and make it hard for competitors to win over customers. Microsoft enjoys a wide moat for the following reasons, says Dan Romanoff at Morningstar, which, like Buffett, puts a big emphasis on moats when analyzing companies.</p>\n<p>First, a lot of Microsoft business software requires a fairly steep learning curve, so customers get locked into products. Besides, swapping out software is disruptive to a business. This creates switching costs. Next, Microsoft products and services benefit from network effects. As more people use Azure, Microsoft Office, LinkedIn and so forth, these offerings become more valuable to everyone because they connect more people together. Network effects create value for customers, discouraging them from jumping ship.</p>\n<p><b>Stock valuation and performance</b></p>\n<p>Microsoft stock has outperformed the shares of several competitors over the past five years, but it still has a relatively low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio compared to them. Keep in mind that relatively new companies like CrowdStrike <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRWD\">$(CRWD)$</a> can have deceptively high P/E ratios because they are still reinvesting a lot into their own businesses, diverting cash away from earnings per share.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8e117411a5c6f56032799c1b4e878800\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"583\"></p>\n<p><b>Wall Street's opinion</b></p>\n<p>Here's a summary of opinion among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c732b48bc05b25cd6526817b99b319f4\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"578\"><span>(FACTSET)</span></p>\n<p><b>Important dates</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>April 27 — Microsoft reports first-quarter earnings.</li>\n <li>May 19 — Ex-dividend date.</li>\n <li>July 20 — Microsoft reports second-quarter earnings.</li>\n</ul>","source":"lsy1603348471595","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Should you buy Microsoft stock? 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Here are the key numbers to look at now\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-23 21:20 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-you-buy-microsoft-stock-here-are-the-key-numbers-to-look-at-now-11619183078?mod=mw_latestnews><strong>MarketWatch</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>These are the key metrics for and stock valuation for Microsoft.\nHalo Infinite, developed by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. (Microsoft Corp.)\nIf you are thinking about buying shares of Microsoft Corp....</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-you-buy-microsoft-stock-here-are-the-key-numbers-to-look-at-now-11619183078?mod=mw_latestnews\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-you-buy-microsoft-stock-here-are-the-key-numbers-to-look-at-now-11619183078?mod=mw_latestnews","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2129095352","content_text":"These are the key metrics for and stock valuation for Microsoft.\nHalo Infinite, developed by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. (Microsoft Corp.)\nIf you are thinking about buying shares of Microsoft Corp., or already own them, you need to understand key metrics and issues related to the company.\nThe numbers, below, show how Microsoft $(MSFT)$ stacks up against competitors, and where its strengths and weaknesses lie. Keep in mind that no two companies are alike -- even rivals don't compete in every space. Investors need to do their own research to make informed long-term decisions.\nKey dynamics\nSince Satya Nadella took over as CEO in February 2014 and dramatically changed the direction of this software giant co-founded by Bill Gates, Microsoft has become a key player in cloud computing. That move has paid off handsomely for investors. The stock is up 680% since then, including dividends, more than four times that of the S&P 500 Index .\nThere may be more outperformance ahead for the stock because growth remains so robust, despite the size of this company. Microsoft has a $1.9 trillion market capitalization. Often companies of this size have a hard time posting fast growth simply because they are so large. Yet this 46-year-old software company put up 16.7% sales growth in the fourth quarter.\nMicrosoft's server products and cloud offerings, a $41.4 billion business last year, grew 25.8% in the fourth quarter. The hottest product line is Azure cloud services. Customers like Azure because it helps them become more productive and competitive. So, they will continue to join up, and expand their usage once they sign on.\n\"We are witnessing the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" Nadella has said.\nAlready at $29 billion a year, Azure sales are growing 50% annually, estimates Goldman Sachs analyst Kash Rangan. (Microsoft does not break out the numbers or offer projections for Azure.) Microsoft also offers artificial intelligence software; Microsoft Office suite products like Word, XL and Outlook; popular video-game hardware; the LinkedIn professional networking site; and, of course, Windows. You can see that four of those business lines are growing at 10% or more, but Windows and search are sluggish.\n(COMPANY FILING)\nGeographic reach\nMicrosoft does half its business outside the U.S. This is good for investors because during times of robust, synchronized global growth like we see now, emerging economies tend to grow much faster than the U.S.\n\"We are investing to bring our cloud services to more customers announcing seven new data center regions in Asia, Europe and Latin America,\" Nadella has announced.\nA vulnerability is that a stronger dollar would hurt Microsoft, since this would reduce the value of foreign earnings as they get exchanged for greenbacks.\n(COMPANY FILING)\nProfitability\nOverall, Microsoft isn't growing as fast as many of its competitors. But the popularity of its cloud products and services supports superior profit margins. For investors, this makes up for the relatively slower sales growth.\n\"Microsoft has pulled ahead of the pack with a state-of-the-art cloud platform,\" says J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Murphy.\n(FACTSET)\nCash and cash flow\nCompanies with lots of cash and solid cash flow have an edge because this helps them avoid the need to rely on banks for dilutive capital raises. It puts them in control of their own destinies. Microsoft uses its cash to buy back stock and pay a 0.87% dividend yield. But it's also tapping the $132 billion cash hoard to grow through acquisitions.\nFor example, Microsoft recently announced the purchase of Nuance Communications, which gives Microsoft solid inroads into the health-care sector. Nuance offers artificial intelligence $(AI)$ used in the sector to analyze conversations and help providers communicate with patients.\nThe risk is that Microsoft might make bad acquisitions and squander cash, which might otherwise have been better used by returning it to shareholders. As examples, Microsoft blundered in its purchases of Nokia's mobile-phone business and the digital-marketing-services company aQuantive. This is why many investors prefer that companies simply return cash to shareholders via dividends and buybacks, rather than risk wasting it.\n(FACTSET)\nMoat\nInvesting great Warren Buffett loves companies with protective moats. Moats create pricing power and make it hard for competitors to win over customers. Microsoft enjoys a wide moat for the following reasons, says Dan Romanoff at Morningstar, which, like Buffett, puts a big emphasis on moats when analyzing companies.\nFirst, a lot of Microsoft business software requires a fairly steep learning curve, so customers get locked into products. Besides, swapping out software is disruptive to a business. This creates switching costs. Next, Microsoft products and services benefit from network effects. As more people use Azure, Microsoft Office, LinkedIn and so forth, these offerings become more valuable to everyone because they connect more people together. Network effects create value for customers, discouraging them from jumping ship.\nStock valuation and performance\nMicrosoft stock has outperformed the shares of several competitors over the past five years, but it still has a relatively low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio compared to them. Keep in mind that relatively new companies like CrowdStrike $(CRWD)$ can have deceptively high P/E ratios because they are still reinvesting a lot into their own businesses, diverting cash away from earnings per share.\n\nWall Street's opinion\nHere's a summary of opinion among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet:\n(FACTSET)\nImportant dates\n\nApril 27 — Microsoft reports first-quarter earnings.\nMay 19 — Ex-dividend date.\nJuly 20 — Microsoft reports second-quarter earnings.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":209,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":371058924,"gmtCreate":1618894929568,"gmtModify":1634290067593,"author":{"id":"3581289582050002","authorId":"3581289582050002","name":"CJtrading","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dac7c27cc78e75b6a1347e71199fda88","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3581289582050002","authorIdStr":"3581289582050002"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"To the moom pltr","listText":"To the moom pltr","text":"To the moom pltr","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/371058924","repostId":"1132732309","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":482,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":895920670,"gmtCreate":1628717098290,"gmtModify":1633744974119,"author":{"id":"3581289582050002","authorId":"3581289582050002","name":"CJtrading","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dac7c27cc78e75b6a1347e71199fda88","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3581289582050002","authorIdStr":"3581289582050002"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Moon","listText":"Moon","text":"Moon","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/895920670","repostId":"1143297548","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1143297548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1628695104,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1143297548?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-08-11 23:18","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple’s Next iPhone Shows How It’s Perfected the Game of Inches","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1143297548","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"There are three things you can safely predict about each new generation of iPhone: It will have a better camera than its predecessor, a faster processor, and Tim Cook,Apple Inc.’s chief executive officer, will call it the “best iPhone we’ve ever made.”For all the technological wizardry, camera and chip improvements can seem a little uninspiring. The real magic is their effect on Apple’s earnings. Because unlike innovations such as Face ID—the facial recognition system used to unlock iPhones—the ","content":"<p>There are three things you can safely predict about each new generation of iPhone: It will have a better camera than its predecessor, a faster processor, and Tim Cook,Apple Inc.’s chief executive officer, will call it the “best iPhone we’ve ever made.”</p>\n<p>For all the technological wizardry, camera and chip improvements can seem a little uninspiring. The real magic is their effect on Apple’s earnings. Because unlike innovations such as Face ID—the facial recognition system used to unlock iPhones—the chip and camera improvements bring a dual benefit to the Cupertino-based company: Not only do consumers pay a premium for the new features, they also usually end up needing more storage to make the most of those features. And storage, it turns out, is an unbelievable money-printing machine. In fact, it might even be Apple’s secret weapon.</p>\n<p>The next iPhone lineup looks set to turbocharge that approach. Alongside other camera upgrades, the handsets will include a higher-quality video format called ProRes when they’re released in the next few weeks,Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, as well as more chip updates.</p>\n<p>With every improvement in image quality comes a commensurate increase in storage requirements. The new photo format that Apple added to the iPhone last year, brandedProRaw, is as much as 12 times larger than the standard JPEG. Bigger video files will exacerbate the trend. (That’s especially bad news for those of us whose casual snaps already take up a slightly embarrassing 36 gigabytes.)</p>\n<p>Consumers’ need for more storage is enormously profitable. Where it costs the consumer $100 to add 128 gigabytes of storage, Apple is unlikely to pay more than $20 for the same chip. If you’d prefer to store the data remotely, Apple’s iCloud offering enjoys similar profit margins. Besides, those who have already made the choice to opt for a $1,099 iPhone 12 Pro Max may be less concerned about ponying up more cash for extra capacity.</p>\n<p>Faster download speeds and greater processing power have the same effect. 5G lets you download more data more quickly, but you need the capacity on your device to store it, as do the whiz-bang games enabled by faster chips.</p>\n<p>Apple is reaping the rewards. Its revenue is expected to jump 33%, to an amazing $365 billion, this year, though of course only a slice of that comes from additional memory options. But it shows how canny investment in improving the right technologies can have a multiplicative effect on profit even in the absence of blockbuster new features or flagship products—the average selling price of an iPhone jumped from $748 at the end of 2019 to $938 this March.</p>\n<p>So while we wait for Apple to eventually reveal its Next Big Thing, whether in autonomous cars, smart glasses, or something else entirely, in the meantime the world’s most valuable company is showing just how profitable its game of inches has become.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple’s Next iPhone Shows How It’s Perfected the Game of Inches</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple’s Next iPhone Shows How It’s Perfected the Game of Inches\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-11 23:18 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-11/new-apple-iphones-show-magic-of-incremental-camera-chip-improvements><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>There are three things you can safely predict about each new generation of iPhone: It will have a better camera than its predecessor, a faster processor, and Tim Cook,Apple Inc.’s chief executive ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-11/new-apple-iphones-show-magic-of-incremental-camera-chip-improvements\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-11/new-apple-iphones-show-magic-of-incremental-camera-chip-improvements","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1143297548","content_text":"There are three things you can safely predict about each new generation of iPhone: It will have a better camera than its predecessor, a faster processor, and Tim Cook,Apple Inc.’s chief executive officer, will call it the “best iPhone we’ve ever made.”\nFor all the technological wizardry, camera and chip improvements can seem a little uninspiring. The real magic is their effect on Apple’s earnings. Because unlike innovations such as Face ID—the facial recognition system used to unlock iPhones—the chip and camera improvements bring a dual benefit to the Cupertino-based company: Not only do consumers pay a premium for the new features, they also usually end up needing more storage to make the most of those features. And storage, it turns out, is an unbelievable money-printing machine. In fact, it might even be Apple’s secret weapon.\nThe next iPhone lineup looks set to turbocharge that approach. Alongside other camera upgrades, the handsets will include a higher-quality video format called ProRes when they’re released in the next few weeks,Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, as well as more chip updates.\nWith every improvement in image quality comes a commensurate increase in storage requirements. The new photo format that Apple added to the iPhone last year, brandedProRaw, is as much as 12 times larger than the standard JPEG. Bigger video files will exacerbate the trend. (That’s especially bad news for those of us whose casual snaps already take up a slightly embarrassing 36 gigabytes.)\nConsumers’ need for more storage is enormously profitable. Where it costs the consumer $100 to add 128 gigabytes of storage, Apple is unlikely to pay more than $20 for the same chip. If you’d prefer to store the data remotely, Apple’s iCloud offering enjoys similar profit margins. Besides, those who have already made the choice to opt for a $1,099 iPhone 12 Pro Max may be less concerned about ponying up more cash for extra capacity.\nFaster download speeds and greater processing power have the same effect. 5G lets you download more data more quickly, but you need the capacity on your device to store it, as do the whiz-bang games enabled by faster chips.\nApple is reaping the rewards. Its revenue is expected to jump 33%, to an amazing $365 billion, this year, though of course only a slice of that comes from additional memory options. But it shows how canny investment in improving the right technologies can have a multiplicative effect on profit even in the absence of blockbuster new features or flagship products—the average selling price of an iPhone jumped from $748 at the end of 2019 to $938 this March.\nSo while we wait for Apple to eventually reveal its Next Big Thing, whether in autonomous cars, smart glasses, or something else entirely, in the meantime the world’s most valuable company is showing just how profitable its game of inches has become.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":276,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":371058924,"gmtCreate":1618894929568,"gmtModify":1634290067593,"author":{"id":"3581289582050002","authorId":"3581289582050002","name":"CJtrading","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dac7c27cc78e75b6a1347e71199fda88","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3581289582050002","authorIdStr":"3581289582050002"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"To the moom pltr","listText":"To the moom pltr","text":"To the moom pltr","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/371058924","repostId":"1132732309","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":482,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":375044450,"gmtCreate":1619266975870,"gmtModify":1634287364091,"author":{"id":"3581289582050002","authorId":"3581289582050002","name":"CJtrading","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dac7c27cc78e75b6a1347e71199fda88","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3581289582050002","authorIdStr":"3581289582050002"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Buy","listText":"Buy","text":"Buy","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/375044450","repostId":"2129095352","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2129095352","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1619184019,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2129095352?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-23 21:20","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Should you buy Microsoft stock? Here are the key numbers to look at now","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2129095352","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"These are the key metrics for and stock valuation for Microsoft.\nHalo Infinite, developed by Microso","content":"<p>These are the key metrics for and stock valuation for Microsoft.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cb47fe42a76d552195e0652645da1f99\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"709\"><span>Halo Infinite, developed by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. (Microsoft Corp.)</span></p>\n<p>If you are thinking about buying shares of Microsoft Corp., or already own them, you need to understand key metrics and issues related to the company.</p>\n<p>The numbers, below, show how Microsoft <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">$(MSFT)$</a> stacks up against competitors, and where its strengths and weaknesses lie. Keep in mind that no two companies are alike -- even rivals don't compete in every space. Investors need to do their own research to make informed long-term decisions.</p>\n<p><b>Key dynamics</b></p>\n<p>Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO in February 2014 and dramatically changed the direction of this software giant co-founded by Bill Gates, Microsoft has become a key player in cloud computing. That move has paid off handsomely for investors. The stock is up 680% since then, including dividends, more than four times that of the S&P 500 Index .</p>\n<p>There may be more outperformance ahead for the stock because growth remains so robust, despite the size of this company. Microsoft has a $1.9 trillion market capitalization. Often companies of this size have a hard time posting fast growth simply because they are so large. Yet this 46-year-old software company put up 16.7% sales growth in the fourth quarter.</p>\n<p>Microsoft's server products and cloud offerings, a $41.4 billion business last year, grew 25.8% in the fourth quarter. The hottest product line is Azure cloud services. Customers like Azure because it helps them become more productive and competitive. So, they will continue to join up, and expand their usage once they sign on.</p>\n<p>\"We are witnessing the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" Nadella has said.</p>\n<p>Already at $29 billion a year, Azure sales are growing 50% annually, estimates Goldman Sachs analyst Kash Rangan. (Microsoft does not break out the numbers or offer projections for Azure.) Microsoft also offers artificial intelligence software; Microsoft Office suite products like Word, XL and Outlook; popular video-game hardware; the LinkedIn professional networking site; and, of course, Windows. You can see that four of those business lines are growing at 10% or more, but Windows and search are sluggish.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/39b29ebf285f8b1bdff7a30678ed3d03\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"962\"><span>(COMPANY FILING)</span></p>\n<p><b>Geographic reach</b></p>\n<p>Microsoft does half its business outside the U.S. This is good for investors because during times of robust, synchronized global growth like we see now, emerging economies tend to grow much faster than the U.S.</p>\n<p>\"We are investing to bring our cloud services to more customers announcing seven new data center regions in Asia, Europe and Latin America,\" Nadella has announced.</p>\n<p>A vulnerability is that a stronger dollar would hurt Microsoft, since this would reduce the value of foreign earnings as they get exchanged for greenbacks.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/888b5218048ba9cd41f3c78463e77136\" tg-width=\"1146\" tg-height=\"504\"><span>(COMPANY FILING)</span></p>\n<p><b>Profitability</b></p>\n<p>Overall, Microsoft isn't growing as fast as many of its competitors. But the popularity of its cloud products and services supports superior profit margins. For investors, this makes up for the relatively slower sales growth.</p>\n<p>\"Microsoft has pulled ahead of the pack with a state-of-the-art cloud platform,\" says J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Murphy.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8e55242f7594f23a1911381f4db6228d\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"503\"><span>(FACTSET)</span></p>\n<p><b>Cash and cash flow</b></p>\n<p>Companies with lots of cash and solid cash flow have an edge because this helps them avoid the need to rely on banks for dilutive capital raises. It puts them in control of their own destinies. Microsoft uses its cash to buy back stock and pay a 0.87% dividend yield. But it's also tapping the $132 billion cash hoard to grow through acquisitions.</p>\n<p>For example, Microsoft recently announced the purchase of Nuance Communications, which gives Microsoft solid inroads into the health-care sector. Nuance offers artificial intelligence <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AI\">$(AI)$</a> used in the sector to analyze conversations and help providers communicate with patients.</p>\n<p>The risk is that Microsoft might make bad acquisitions and squander cash, which might otherwise have been better used by returning it to shareholders. As examples, Microsoft blundered in its purchases of Nokia's mobile-phone business and the digital-marketing-services company aQuantive. This is why many investors prefer that companies simply return cash to shareholders via dividends and buybacks, rather than risk wasting it.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7a3630382d2d6e12a1242ec6697cb950\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"467\"><span>(FACTSET)</span></p>\n<p><b>Moat</b></p>\n<p>Investing great Warren Buffett loves companies with protective moats. Moats create pricing power and make it hard for competitors to win over customers. Microsoft enjoys a wide moat for the following reasons, says Dan Romanoff at Morningstar, which, like Buffett, puts a big emphasis on moats when analyzing companies.</p>\n<p>First, a lot of Microsoft business software requires a fairly steep learning curve, so customers get locked into products. Besides, swapping out software is disruptive to a business. This creates switching costs. Next, Microsoft products and services benefit from network effects. As more people use Azure, Microsoft Office, LinkedIn and so forth, these offerings become more valuable to everyone because they connect more people together. Network effects create value for customers, discouraging them from jumping ship.</p>\n<p><b>Stock valuation and performance</b></p>\n<p>Microsoft stock has outperformed the shares of several competitors over the past five years, but it still has a relatively low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio compared to them. Keep in mind that relatively new companies like CrowdStrike <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRWD\">$(CRWD)$</a> can have deceptively high P/E ratios because they are still reinvesting a lot into their own businesses, diverting cash away from earnings per share.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8e117411a5c6f56032799c1b4e878800\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"583\"></p>\n<p><b>Wall Street's opinion</b></p>\n<p>Here's a summary of opinion among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c732b48bc05b25cd6526817b99b319f4\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"578\"><span>(FACTSET)</span></p>\n<p><b>Important dates</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>April 27 — Microsoft reports first-quarter earnings.</li>\n <li>May 19 — Ex-dividend date.</li>\n <li>July 20 — Microsoft reports second-quarter earnings.</li>\n</ul>","source":"lsy1603348471595","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Should you buy Microsoft stock? 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(Microsoft Corp.)\nIf you are thinking about buying shares of Microsoft Corp., or already own them, you need to understand key metrics and issues related to the company.\nThe numbers, below, show how Microsoft $(MSFT)$ stacks up against competitors, and where its strengths and weaknesses lie. Keep in mind that no two companies are alike -- even rivals don't compete in every space. Investors need to do their own research to make informed long-term decisions.\nKey dynamics\nSince Satya Nadella took over as CEO in February 2014 and dramatically changed the direction of this software giant co-founded by Bill Gates, Microsoft has become a key player in cloud computing. That move has paid off handsomely for investors. The stock is up 680% since then, including dividends, more than four times that of the S&P 500 Index .\nThere may be more outperformance ahead for the stock because growth remains so robust, despite the size of this company. Microsoft has a $1.9 trillion market capitalization. Often companies of this size have a hard time posting fast growth simply because they are so large. Yet this 46-year-old software company put up 16.7% sales growth in the fourth quarter.\nMicrosoft's server products and cloud offerings, a $41.4 billion business last year, grew 25.8% in the fourth quarter. The hottest product line is Azure cloud services. Customers like Azure because it helps them become more productive and competitive. So, they will continue to join up, and expand their usage once they sign on.\n\"We are witnessing the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" Nadella has said.\nAlready at $29 billion a year, Azure sales are growing 50% annually, estimates Goldman Sachs analyst Kash Rangan. (Microsoft does not break out the numbers or offer projections for Azure.) Microsoft also offers artificial intelligence software; Microsoft Office suite products like Word, XL and Outlook; popular video-game hardware; the LinkedIn professional networking site; and, of course, Windows. You can see that four of those business lines are growing at 10% or more, but Windows and search are sluggish.\n(COMPANY FILING)\nGeographic reach\nMicrosoft does half its business outside the U.S. This is good for investors because during times of robust, synchronized global growth like we see now, emerging economies tend to grow much faster than the U.S.\n\"We are investing to bring our cloud services to more customers announcing seven new data center regions in Asia, Europe and Latin America,\" Nadella has announced.\nA vulnerability is that a stronger dollar would hurt Microsoft, since this would reduce the value of foreign earnings as they get exchanged for greenbacks.\n(COMPANY FILING)\nProfitability\nOverall, Microsoft isn't growing as fast as many of its competitors. But the popularity of its cloud products and services supports superior profit margins. For investors, this makes up for the relatively slower sales growth.\n\"Microsoft has pulled ahead of the pack with a state-of-the-art cloud platform,\" says J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Murphy.\n(FACTSET)\nCash and cash flow\nCompanies with lots of cash and solid cash flow have an edge because this helps them avoid the need to rely on banks for dilutive capital raises. It puts them in control of their own destinies. Microsoft uses its cash to buy back stock and pay a 0.87% dividend yield. But it's also tapping the $132 billion cash hoard to grow through acquisitions.\nFor example, Microsoft recently announced the purchase of Nuance Communications, which gives Microsoft solid inroads into the health-care sector. Nuance offers artificial intelligence $(AI)$ used in the sector to analyze conversations and help providers communicate with patients.\nThe risk is that Microsoft might make bad acquisitions and squander cash, which might otherwise have been better used by returning it to shareholders. As examples, Microsoft blundered in its purchases of Nokia's mobile-phone business and the digital-marketing-services company aQuantive. This is why many investors prefer that companies simply return cash to shareholders via dividends and buybacks, rather than risk wasting it.\n(FACTSET)\nMoat\nInvesting great Warren Buffett loves companies with protective moats. Moats create pricing power and make it hard for competitors to win over customers. Microsoft enjoys a wide moat for the following reasons, says Dan Romanoff at Morningstar, which, like Buffett, puts a big emphasis on moats when analyzing companies.\nFirst, a lot of Microsoft business software requires a fairly steep learning curve, so customers get locked into products. Besides, swapping out software is disruptive to a business. This creates switching costs. Next, Microsoft products and services benefit from network effects. As more people use Azure, Microsoft Office, LinkedIn and so forth, these offerings become more valuable to everyone because they connect more people together. Network effects create value for customers, discouraging them from jumping ship.\nStock valuation and performance\nMicrosoft stock has outperformed the shares of several competitors over the past five years, but it still has a relatively low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio compared to them. Keep in mind that relatively new companies like CrowdStrike $(CRWD)$ can have deceptively high P/E ratios because they are still reinvesting a lot into their own businesses, diverting cash away from earnings per share.\n\nWall Street's opinion\nHere's a summary of opinion among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet:\n(FACTSET)\nImportant dates\n\nApril 27 — Microsoft reports first-quarter earnings.\nMay 19 — Ex-dividend date.\nJuly 20 — Microsoft reports second-quarter earnings.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":209,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}
