Between consumption and investment, Apple is a total success and there are people who renew their iPhone every year, or at least every two or three. But how much would they have earned if they had invested what they spent on an iPhone in Apple shares?
When the iPhone was launched in 2007, Apple shares averaged an annual price of $3.8997, so a single iPhone would have bought about 127.96 shares.
And if we multiply this number of shares by their value at the beginning of January 2023, the profit would be 32.98 times the investment. In other words, having invested $499 for the first iPhone, today a consumer would have $16,459.86. At the current exchange rate, this is 310,103 pesos.
Assuming that in the course of these years, an average consumer has bought at least 5 iPhones: the first, the iPhone 4, the iPhoneX and the iPhone 11, then the total expense would have been $2,796, or 52,564 pesos at the exchange rate. current.
On the other hand, if the consumer had invested that money in Apple shares, in the year in which the respective version was launched, they would now have approximately 31,609.98 dollars or 594,267 pesos. In other words, 10 times more than what you could have invested in each year you wanted to buy a new iPhone.
With information from Reuters.