Ecar News learned from relevant channels that on the first trading day of 2022, Apple's market value exceeded $3 trillion, becoming the first U.S. listed company with a market value of more than one trillion US dollars.
It is understood that Apple's market value has risen very rapidly, reaching a market value of $1 trillion in August 2018, its market value reached $2 trillion on August 19, 2020, and $3 trillion has only passed 1 year and 4 months. According to the relevant personnel of the US investment bank, Apple's rally may continue into 2022.
What is the level of $3 trillion, which is about 19.06 trillion yuan, the market value is already equivalent to the world's fifth-largest economy, currently second only to the United States, China, Japan and Germany, and its difference with the fourth ranked Germany is not very large, if it continues to rise, this year more than Germany is also possible, with the rich enemy of the country to describe it is not too much.
Apple's business is very diverse, the strong demand cycle of the iPhone, Apple's fast-growing service business and the launch of new products will be the driving force to maintain the rally; Apple's services business will also remain the company's key driver Apple has significantly increased revenue through services such as video streaming and music, and the service business alone can bring in $100 billion in revenue by 2024. In addition, technologies such as 5G, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are also promising.
Judging from the previously learned news, Apple cars may debut in 2025, and according to the previous patent information, the new car may have high-level autonomous driving capabilities based on lidar systems, body display systems, facial recognition entry, and rotating seat systems.
Car manufacturing requires a long-term investment cycle and huge cash investment, before there are a number of new forces into the car, but eventually because of various problems such as funds and disappeared, Weilai CEO Li Bin once said that building a car needs a threshold of 20 billion, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said that xiaomi cash reserves of more than 100 billion, can afford to lose, compared to the rich and invincible Apple is not only rich in funds, revenue ability is also very strong, for car manufacturing, maybe Apple may be just a piece of cake (a piece of cake) bar.