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by verticalscaler 828 days ago
$1T Market Cap lets it be known it will invest $10B a year into $current-hype that will change everything. P/E loosens speculatively on sudden new unbounded potential, Market Cap $1.1T. Hype funded. PR as innovator cemented.
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If you look at the R&D expenditure of Apple, it is mindboggling.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/researc...

Roughly 30B USD per year. And what are we getting? Slightly slimmer phones and 3500USD AR/VR headsets?

> Market Cap $1.1T. Hype funded.

I'm confused. How does your stock price, which determines market cat, affect your cashflow to fund R&D? It does not.