Is underweight it. It trades at a high 29x PE and they reported -1% earnings decline as well as -5% in revenue and -2% in iPhone sales, -20% in iPad sales and -7% in Macs all in the last quarter. What are you getting with this? Well, the free cash flow, gross margin expansion, opex under control. But 29x is rich. Would buy on a pullback.
The Apple news of striking a chip deal with Qualcomm surprises him in a good way. The three-year deal is a long time. The stock is up today and it's been very disappointing. Maybe both companies are learning to live with each other after a long history of lawsuits. Qualcomm remains a cheap company focused on IP needed for mobile telephony, an industry that has been terrible for 1.5 years (and he's waiting for it to bottom). China is key to their business, but China is having economic trouble these days. Maybe all the bad news is priced into this, but watch your back with this stock.