Apple's $500 Billion Investment in America: Is the Stock a Buy?
The reshoring of manufacturing to North America is becoming a huge theme throughout corporate America. Whether their management teams are acting to avoid the impact of tariffs or because it makes sense to them on broader business and geopolitical levels, numerous companies recently made major announcements about their plans to invest domestically.Tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) put out perhaps the largest number so far when it announced that it plans to spend $500 billion in the United States over the next four years. But does that enormous planned outlay make Apple stock a buy today?Apple is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue. It generated close to $400 billion in sales in 2024 alone. However, it does not manufacture and assemble most of its computing hardware. It outsources that part of the operation to contractors such as Foxconn. Continue reading
The reshoring of manufacturing to North America is becoming a huge theme throughout corporate America. Whether their management teams are acting to avoid the impact of tariffs or because it makes sense to them on broader business and geopolitical levels, numerous companies recently made major announcements about their plans to invest domestically.
Tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) put out perhaps the largest number so far when it announced that it plans to spend $500 billion in the United States over the next four years. But does that enormous planned outlay make Apple stock a buy today?
Apple is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue. It generated close to $400 billion in sales in 2024 alone. However, it does not manufacture and assemble most of its computing hardware. It outsources that part of the operation to contractors such as Foxconn.
