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Apple to Host Conference Call Monday Concerning its Near $100 Billion Cash Balance
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I don't think Apple has any interest in cutting into profits or dealing with union demands.
The reasoning of a purchase means nothing when it comes to keeping it secret. There's also legal reasons surrounding keeping acquisitions as secret as possible.
Use the money to introduce a couple of more products: a 4.5 inch iPhone and a 7 inch iPad, so people have more choices
Ok, wishful thinking here. But I would dump my terribly buggy Android for smooth and reliable iPhone if it had a big screen
So you prefer a buggy phone with a big screen? Are you blind? Seriously. I know not everyone agrees with me, but I think that mindset is just odd. I just can't get down with a bigger iPhone. Maybe if they keep the handset the same size overall... still though, who cares? Bigger iPads... now that would be cool!
How would apple benefit from dividends? It's not like they have to boost their stock price, and certainly they don't have to convince investors to give them more money... they have too much of that already!
Similarly I don't see much benefit from repurchasing shares... but then, I'm no finance expert.
What could they possibly buy that costs more than a few 100 million? A wireless provider (T-mobile)? A TV provider/channel?
Similarly I don't see much benefit from repurchasing shares... but then, I'm no finance expert.
What could they possibly buy that costs more than a few 100 million? A wireless provider (T-mobile)? A TV provider/channel?
Why does Apple have to have a media conference call to announce a dividend ?
Are they just being theatrical ?
Are they just being theatrical ?
Compaq, actually. Had he stayed, he might be H-P's CEO right now. They could use someone of his stature. I think he's happy he made the move, however.
If it is something huge like a $20 billion dividend or stock buyback, they need a media conference. This would be anything but an ordinary event. Whatever they have decided to do or not do with the cash, there will be a lot of questions as to why they took that course of action as opposed to some other course of action. Here are just some of the concerns: tax consequences, how much cash will be left, whether it will be one-time or recurring?
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There going to put it all on 32 Red.
There going to put it all on 32 Red.
A dividend would give investors some of that money back. It's what companies do when they decide that they have more money than they know how to invest on their behalf.
Apple is at the point where it doesn't need $100 billion in cash and investments in order to develop great products and sell them at high margins. If they can do what they are doing now with half the cash or less, they should give the rest of the cash back. We aren't expecting them to manage our money (we have companies like Fidelity or Vanguard for that). They should manage the business with the cash that they need.
How would that help. Dell does many things well and one of those is their enterprise support, something that apple plain sucks at. There is a reason every school and most business have Dells. Their business machines are great and their enterprise onsite support is even better. They also make machines that make sense. Businesses would much rather have a 500 dollar tower than a 2000 dollar all in one that is really not any better for their use. Apple simply does not cater to the professional market at all. For both production and corporations.
Also dells monitors are much nicer. They offer way more options, more inputs, and are futureproof. The ultrasharps come with a great 3 year zero dead pixel warranty standard.
They are 10% of the NASDAQ. Chances are that you have some indirect interest in Apple, either through a 401K investment or through a pension plan that your employer operates.
I'm thinking they will use the money to position Apple well into the future:
1) iCloud will be the name of Apple's Global MVNO communications network.
2) An acquisition to make the Apple TV television content distribution deals fall into place. Perhaps this is a part of what Jobs meant when he "cracked" it.
3) Nintendo acquisition.
4) World Peace.
1) iCloud will be the name of Apple's Global MVNO communications network.
2) An acquisition to make the Apple TV television content distribution deals fall into place. Perhaps this is a part of what Jobs meant when he "cracked" it.
3) Nintendo acquisition.
4) World Peace.
Thanks for the corrections!
The board of directors are the ones deciding whether or not to issue dividends though, right? Unless I'm mistaken? It's been a while since I took a B&M class, so some of my knowledge is spotty...
First part is not true (refer to above post). As for the second, I think you underestimate human greed.
A new definition of success: other companies make conferences when they are bankrupt and have a lack of money. These people are doing it because there is too much. It'll be interesting to see what they'll achieve with 100,000,000,000
Why is this downrated, Sure companies have the right to make a profit but as consumers there has to be a point where we draw the line. Its not just Apple, but its seems that many companies are never happy when their making profit. There are a lot of companies in the red and their are a lot of people in the red as well. That extra money they get through these tactics has to come from somewhere. There's a point where it becomes unethical to take even more money from people. That point is crossed when you start charge premium prices for products made with slave labor that use binned parts (yes the gpus with quarter/half the ram as the normal ones are binned, this is unacceptable in the 1800 dollar 15 inch macbook pro with 512 vram, there are 500 dollar machines that 1gb of vram) or when telecom companies come up with new fees because they know they can get away with it.