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Investment slope JP Morgan says that connected apical of already ascendant Apple Watch earnings, the Apple Watch Ultra could correspond $10 cardinal much gross from utmost sports users.

JP Morgan's merchandise availability tracker has recently reported beardown request for the iPhone 14 Pro, and its analysts person present concluded astatine the Apple Watch Ultra is besides a important success.

"Apple Watch Ultra pb times person tracked anyplace betwixt 25-45 days since archetypal availability, which compares to 9-30days for the Series 8 and 5-10 days for the SE variants," accidental JP Morgan analysts successful a enactment seen by AppleInsider. "In our view, we judge the elongated pb times for the Apple Watch Ultra suggests aboriginal occurrence comparative to lawsuit reception with the newer model, which has sustained astatine slightest implicit the archetypal six weeks since archetypal launch."

The steadfast describes the Apple Watch Ultra arsenic Apple's first, and truthful acold only, introduction into what it describes arsenic the Premium Smartwatch market.

"We estimation the premium Smartwatch accidental for Apple ranges betwixt $10 bn to $38 bn," continues the report, "with the low-end of the scope encompassing the upgrade of consumers focused connected Sports, portion the high-end of the scope encompasses each consumers focused connected basal features, similar amended artillery life."

Even earlier the summation of the Apple Watch Ultra, JP Morgan notes that Apple was already starring the full smartwatch marketplace successful presumption of portion income and particularly revenue.

It says that Apple Watch has 48% of the market, but besides a 62% stock of revenue. The Apple Watch Ultra is not the lone premium watch, however.

"[Direct] nonstop competitors, similar Garmin, person a premium positioning successful the marketplace arsenic well," says JP Morgan, "with their portfolio comprising Sports focused watches priced successful the scope of $700-$1,000 and Premium watches priced successful the scope of $1,500-$2,500."

By comparison, the Apple Watch Ultra sells for $799. "[We] spot a roadmap for Apple to motorboat much premium watches to widen the portfolio," says JP Morgan's report.

The concern study notes that contempt Apple being the ascendant person successful the market, it has annually been ceding astir 175 ground points.

Across each concern types, 1 ground constituent represents 0.01% of a value, successful this lawsuit of Apple's portion shipments. So JP Morgan is saying that "despite increasing double-digits astir years," Apple's wide stock of the marketplace has been declining by astir 1.75% annually.

Since income are going up, this diminution successful stock is owed to the emergence of alternatives. JP Morgan says that Samsung and Garmin person been gaining astir "50bps oregon little per year."

Currently, JP Morgan estimates Apple arsenic having 48% of the marketplace portion Samsung is connected 15%, Garmin connected 8%, and Google connected 6%. The institution says Google's emergence to 6% from its erstwhile 2% is down to its acquisition of Fossil.

How the Apple Watch Ultra and Apple Watch Series 8 models involvement existent Apple Watch users who are looking to upgrade

The aboriginal of Apple Watch Ultra

JP Morgan reports that based connected its ain idiosyncratic survey of existing Apple Watch users looking to upgrade, astir fractional were intending to bargain the Apple Watch Ultra.

"As a result, we spot a much targeted user basal successful narration to diversion users, some from the installed based arsenic good arsenic switchers yet consenting to follow Apple Watch arsenic show gear," continues the report. "However, the bigger demographic accidental lies successful narration to upgrading the existing Apple Watch installed basal led by amended artillery beingness arsenic the superior driver."

JP Morgan bases its assertion of $10 cardinal gross for the Apple Watch Ultra connected an estimation of "the information of the Apple installed basal that is looking for a ticker tailored for Extreme Sports."

"However, involvement successful Ultra extends beyond Extreme Sports into Battery Life and drives a bigger accidental of $38 bn," it continues.

JP Morgan acceptable a terms people for Apple banal astatine $200 successful April 2022. This latest study retains that aforesaid target.