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GoPro Plunges After Apple Gains Remote Camera Patent
By Peter Burrows - 13.01.2015 20:31:46
A GoPro wearable digital camera rig at an International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Photographer: Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg
GoPro Inc. (GPRO ▼ -13,91% 48,88) shares plummeted as much as 15 percent today in their steepest decline since August, after Apple Inc. (AAPL ▲ 0,52% 109,82) was granted a patent for remote-control camera system.
The stock dropped 14 percent to $48.64 as of 2:23 p.m. in New York. The plunge followed Apple gaining a patent today from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a system that lets consumers control a digital camera remotely.
Investors are concerned that the patent from Apple, the world’s largest company by valuation, will create products similar to what GoPro offers, said Charlie Anderson, an analyst at Dougherty & Co. Apple sold more than 270 million units of its various products in fiscal 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Jeff Brown, a spokesman for San Mateo, California-based GoPro, was not available for comment. A representative for Cupertino, California-based Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
GoPro, which went public last June and is trading at more than twice its initial public offering price of $24 a share, has been volatile in recent months. The world’s dominant maker of wearable video cameras used by surfers and others to record their exploits is facing questions about its ability to create a media business around the videos that consumers post online using their GoPro devices.
Roughly half of the company’s outstanding shares will also become available on the market on Feb. 17 when a lock-up lifts on employees and other insiders’ shares, Anderson said.
He said Apple receives thousands of patents each year, most of which never lead to products. He said it’s more likely that Apple would use the remote capability encapsulated in the patent to let customers control the zoom and other photo and video settings on their iPhone or iPad cameras from another Apple device.
“GoPro has done well, but we’re talking about four million units and $1 billion in revenue in the past year,” he said. “Apple doesn’t do things with single-digit millions of units in mind.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Peter Burrows in San Francisco at pburrows@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Pui-Wing Tam at ptam13@bloomberg.net Jillian Ward
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