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Apple (AAPL) trades at 38x P\/E with iPhone revenue of $56.99B rebounding 16.6% YoY, yet faces memory chip cost inflation that Nintendo already flagged by raising hardware prices, while insiders including CEO Tim Cook sold heavily in April despite the stock rising 12.47% in the past month. Alphabet (GOOGL) trades at 17x P\/E with Q1 26 revenue growing 21.8% to $109.90B and EPS beating estimates by 94%, generating $460B in Google Cloud backlog and running 500,000+ autonomous rides weekly without exposure to semiconductor supply chain pressures.<\/p>\n
Apple\u2019s valuation advantage is evaporating as memory chip costs threaten margins on a hardware business generating half its revenue from one device, while Alphabet\u2019s AI-driven growth and software-centric model avoid component inflation entirely.<\/p>\n
The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and Apple wasn’t one of them. Get them here FREE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Apple is back at the top of every watchlist after the latest quarter showed iPhone revenue rebounding and CEO Tim Cook touting “extraordinary demand for iPhone 17 lineup”. The setup beneath the headline numbers is more interesting.<\/p>\n Nintendo just raised hardware prices to offset rising memory chip costs, and memory can constitute 10% to 15% of the total bill of materials for high-end smartphones. That is the canary. Apple still derives roughly half of revenue from one device, and the market is paying a software-grade multiple for a hardware business about to absorb component inflation the supply chain has already telegraphed.<\/p>\n Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL<\/a>) trades at a P\/E near 38x with a price-to-book of 58.30 and a free cash flow yield of just 2.30%. The most recent quarter delivered EPS of $2.01 on revenue of $111.18B, up 16.6% YoY, with iPhone contributing $56.99B and Greater China another $20.50B of geopolitical exposure. A $100B buyback authorization and a 4% dividend hike are pleasant, and they also signal management cannot find a better use for the cash.<\/p>\n The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and Apple wasn’t one of them. Get them here FREE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Insiders are walking. Director Arthur Levinson disposed of roughly 255,000 shares on May 6 near $285, and Cook, the CFO, the COO, and SVP O’Brien all sold in early April. Shares have run 12.47% in the past month and 48.19% over the last year, yet Polymarket gives Apple only a 20.5% probability of finishing May above $300. That is a crowded trade staring down a memory-chip cost shock.<\/p>\n The Redirect: Alphabet Is Cheaper, Faster, and Less Exposed <\/p>\n