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Apple Issues Statement About Returning Cash to Shareholders
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I find all the "give to the loyal customers" or "give raises to staff and retail" very funny.
They are hoarding Shareholders money not anyone else's. All they are really doing is giving the money back to the rightful owners.
They are hoarding Shareholders money not anyone else's. All they are really doing is giving the money back to the rightful owners.
No Dividend for Me, Please
Keep the 2.7% dividend. You are going to need the cash for future technology and legal battles ahead. Just grow the stock value by delivering products we don't know we want yet. If you do, and the stock price growth reflects it, I doubt anyone is going to miss the dividend.
Keep the 2.7% dividend. You are going to need the cash for future technology and legal battles ahead. Just grow the stock value by delivering products we don't know we want yet. If you do, and the stock price growth reflects it, I doubt anyone is going to miss the dividend.
Apple sits on SO MUCH money. Can they possibly ever spend it all?
Yes they can. And they need to do something big. Build a freaking house run by Siri. They have $137 BILLION... do something crazy!
Steve would never allow this. This is the difference between an owner and an employee who must show something in a short period of time. Apple doomed.
Did thatnow is the time !
The time to buy was 440-450. I bet we see a slight pull back from this tomorrow.
I'm european so the dividend is taxed twice, i lose a total of 35% on tax. I hate that, a stock buyback would be better or just invest in a new daughter company to build a self sustained tech-city or something, its a crime not to do something bold with that kind of cash.
It's not blackmail.
They are saying "give us our money (and it IS their money) or else do something better with it that will build value."
This is essentially Apple saying "we can't figure out anything better to do with it so here you go"
not rocket surgery here, brother
Wall St. is always the last to realize what's going on in technology, and that's combined with a huge blind spot regarding aapl. Next time you're watching some analyst talk about technology, ask yourself if you'd trust this person to install software for you. If the answer is 'no', you're probably more qualified to be a technology stock pundit. Apple is mopping the floor with the competition: they win almost all of the profit in this sector and their every move, since the introduction of the iPhone, has been blatantly copied by the typical selection of commodity junk tech companies who fight over scraps in the low end of the market.
Samsung is going blue in the face trying to convince the less endowed to make up for it with laughably huge screen sizes... Wow, it only fits in fat boy pants, it looks significantly cheaper and cluttered, it's fans are overly hung up on the needlessly stupid screen size, and it's running an OS that's always named according to various sugary junk foods. Oh wait... the other message is that it's cheaper, but just as 'cool' as those iPhones! It's really easy to see the demographic target... nothing quite says cheap, overweight, 1-inch wonder faster than Samsung!
Actually it is blackmail. Look at how the stock price has been going down. It is just a part of the blackmail.
Their initial investment is their money. Along with any profit or loss from their investment.
If they want "their money" back sell the stock.
Their money is only a portion of the money Apple has.
Non-voting
Guaranteed Dividends
Paid before any common stockholders
Owed regardless of company's ability to pay (accumulating)
Personally I don't see this as such a good thing. I know Wall Street generally likes it, but this is basically Apple admitting that they cannot get a better return investing that money in the business so they are giving it to the shareholders instead. My concern is they have either run out of ideas to use the money, the future tech is far too expensive to invest in, or some other unflattering reason that is masked by the news of a large dividend.
I wonder what their hurdle rate is. Didn't Microsoft do a one time dividend to give back some of their cash hoard at some point? I don't think it generally helps a stock long term but I could be wrong.
I wonder what their hurdle rate is. Didn't Microsoft do a one time dividend to give back some of their cash hoard at some point? I don't think it generally helps a stock long term but I could be wrong.