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As Tim Cook Steps Aside, What's Next for Apple?

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  • Tim Cook's lasting legacy is stability - he kept the plane on course

    60% confidence
  • Having the customer is more valuable than having the AI model in two years

    60% confidence
  • Apple's profits are up about 700% since Tim Cook took over as CEO

    60% confidence
  • We need to quickly decide how to handle large company IPOs because Anthropic and OpenAI are waiting

    60% confidence
  • Apple is not among the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now according to Stock Advisor

    60% confidence
  • AST SpaceMobile has just over $3 billion in cash to build out their satellite constellation

    60% confidence
  • AST SpaceMobile needs to complete 45 to 60 launches this year to start generating revenue

    60% confidence
  • 30% of all assets under management in top 100 ETFs are allocated to S&P 500

    60% confidence
  • Not having SpaceX in the S&P 500 makes the index less reflective of the overall market

    60% confidence
  • Bringing in a hardware engineer as CEO doesn't guarantee a new breakthrough product

    60% confidence
  • Apple now has more than 1 billion paid subscriptions throughout its ecosystem

    60% confidence
  • Apple's focus on on-device AI rather than cloud infrastructure could lead to more frequent upgrades

    60% confidence
  • About 4 billion people on Earth live where cell coverage is not great

    60% confidence
  • T-Mobile trades at 2.5 times sales

    60% confidence
  • AST SpaceMobile has $31 billion market cap for essentially a pre-revenue company with $1.2 billion revenue commitments

    60% confidence
  • There are not enough reliable launch partners right now in the space industry

    60% confidence
  • AST SpaceMobile is traded at a conservative 130 times future sales

    60% confidence
  • Getting the AI strategy right could be just as big as a new product launch for Apple

    60% confidence
  • Being behind the curve on AI innovation is one of the biggest challenges for Apple's new leadership

    60% confidence
  • There is about $2.8 trillion in passive S&P 500 index ETFs

    60% confidence
  • Companies that establish themselves as reliable launch providers will succeed

    60% confidence
  • Index fund players would need to amass at least 20% stake in SpaceX if included in S&P 500

    60% confidence
  • Rocket Lab is the best space investment idea right now

    60% confidence
  • Apple was right not to build its own car

    60% confidence
  • Service revenue was about 5% of Apple's business when Cook took over, now more than 25%

    60% confidence
  • AST SpaceMobile investment is speculative at best with a lot of execution risk

    60% confidence
  • AST SpaceMobile satellite that went into wrong orbit will be deorbited

    60% confidence
  • If you invested $1,000 in Nvidia on April 15, 2005 based on Stock Advisor recommendation, you'd have $1,223,900

    60% confidence
  • Stock Advisor's total average return is 967% vs 199% for S&P 500

    60% confidence
  • If you invested $1,000 in Netflix on December 17, 2004 based on Stock Advisor recommendation, you'd have $500,572

    60% confidence

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S&P 500 · total average return199 percent
SpaceX · ipo raise amount90 USD
SpaceX · valuation2 trillion_USD
SpaceX · sp500 weight3 percent
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