Forbes Lists Apple to Acquire 6 Major Goals Cisco HP in Column

Beijing time August 9 news, the United States well-known financial magazine "Forbes" online version of today's article said that due to the US stock market fell on Monday as a whole, which in theory created more potential acquisition opportunities for Apple, the acquisition goals include the Bank of America, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard, etc., but in reality Apple does not do this.

"Forbes" believes that although Apple has $7.52 billion in cash and marketable securities, Apple's fascination is that the company does not abuse its acquisition strategy. In the acquisition strategy, Apple CEO Steve Jobs insisted that the principle of non-absolute abuse.

The following are the six companies cited by Forbes that could theoretically be Apple's acquisition targets:

1. Bank of America

For many years, Apple has been hoping to develop financial corporate customers. Banks in the United States are very large, and their share prices have fallen by 20% on Monday. Apple only needs to bid 65.9 billion US dollars to buy Bank of America, and then let the bank's 280,000 employees put Mac computers on their desks. In addition, for those home loan applicants, Jobs may ask them to paint their house white.

2, Cisco

As of the end of June this year, Apple’s cash and securities totaled 75.2 billion U.S. dollars. In theory, current total cash and securities of Apple is definitely higher than $75.2 billion. Cisco's share price fell 6.69% on Monday, which means that Apple's 76.67 billion US dollars will be able to take Cisco's network equipment giant as its own.

3, Ford and General Motors

As of the close of the US stock market on Monday, the market value of General Motors (GM) was 36.88 billion U.S. dollars and Ford was 37.72 billion U.S. dollars. If Apple buys the two auto giants at the same time, it still has a surplus of US$600 million in cash. Although GM and Ford’s car designs are not bad, Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive will undoubtedly be more useful if Apple acquires these two companies.

4, HP

Hewlett-Packard's stock price fell not too big on Monday. Apple's stock price fell 5.56% on Monday, and HP fell 5.58%. HP's market value is 63.9 billion U.S. dollars, and Apple still has the ability to acquire it. Although Apple has too many reasons not to buy HP, HP also has a large number of businesses that Apple cannot reach, such as printers, servers, and switches.

5, Disney

Disney’s current market value is 62.43 billion U.S. dollars. If Jobs hopes to play a more important role in the mainstream media, he may consider buying Disney. After Apple acquired Disney, there was still a large amount of cash surplus in hand. Of course, if Steve Jobs really wants to buy Disney, he has already shot it long ago.

6, United Technologies (United Technologies)

United Technologies mainly produces elevators, aircraft engines and other products. Apple also produces iPod music players and Macs. If Apple acquires joint technology, will it play a synergistic role? After falling 5.83% on Monday, the market price of United Technologies was 63.37 billion U.S. dollars. If Apple wants it, it can easily take it as its own. It's just that Apple will never do this.

"Forbes" said that although the above lists the six companies that could theoretically become Apple's acquisition targets, in reality Jobs will not do so. Which companies are Jobs's ideal acquisition goals? Although Jobs did not explicitly say that, he said to investors last October: "We must be prepared at any time. We firmly believe that one or more strategic opportunities will come."

Interestingly, the longer Jobs stayed on the acquisition, the more Apple's acquisition opportunities seem to be.