Which companies benefit from Apple iPhone’s halo?

“We learned from its iPod that Apple wasn’t the only company that investors could make money on as the product’s popularity grew. If the iPhone continues to sell as well as it did last week, we should take a look at the vendors supplying the parts for the iPhone. Apple is the big winner if the iPhone does well, but the success of this product may create a bullish ‘halo’ effect around the suppliers. Here’s how they look,” John Hughes and Scott Maragioglio reports for TheStreet.com.

Hughes and Maragioglio cover some of Apple’s iPhone component suppliers:
• Broadcom
• National Semiconductor
• Infineon

Full article here.

22 Comments

  1. @R2…

    Apple is waiting two weeks to make sure there are no mass returns.

    I had not trouble getting an iPhone late Saturday afternoon in Bellevue, WA. Of course, I’m still waiting for activation… 🙁

  2. > Apple is the big winner if the iPhone does well, but the success of this product may create a bullish ‘halo’ effect around the suppliers…

    Someone forget about AT&T? Other than Apple itself, that’s the company that will benefit the most.

  3. > Samsung covering all the bases. Parts for iPod, iPhone, plus competing products. Very smart.

    Apple is the smart one for choosing Samsung. If Samsung is making a ton of money supplying parts for Apple, it is not going “compete” with its own end-products quite as hard.

  4. “If Samsung is making a ton of money supplying parts for Apple, it is not going “compete” with its own end-products quite as hard.”

    Perhaps in the alternate business reality in which you live that’s true.

    In the real world Samsung will continue try to get it’s processors in as many devices as possible while also selling it’s own phones.

    iPhone, even at 10 million units a year would be small potatoes to Samsung.

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