Apple and Others Are Coming for Tesla
Published: Dec. 22, 2020 at 8:07 a.m. ET
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Is Apple jealous?
According to Reuters,
Apple,
the world’s most valuable company, is planning to make a battery-powered self-driving car. That sounds a lot like what
Tesla,
the world’s most valuable auto maker, does.
Apple has been toying with the idea of a car since 2014—think of it as an iPhone on wheels—but a finished product hasn’t emerged. This planned version of the iCar is slated to hit the streets by 2024.
Investors might wonder why Apple wants to be a car company at all. Car companies make less money, are more cyclical, and trade at terrible valuation multiples. But that was before Tesla, which trades at more than 13 times estimated 2021 sales. Apple trades for just 6 times that number.