Apple Expected To Double Dividend To $16B

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What's the best way to make investors happy when your stock has tanked 35% in six months? How about using some of that cash reserve to double your dividend?

Apple will probably lift its quarterly dividend 56 percent to $4.14 a share, for an annual payout of $15.7 billion, according to the average estimate from six analysts. The resulting yield of 3.6 percent would be higher than 84 percent of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index paying dividends.
 
Actually not a good sign at all.

Apple is basically telling you they can't use this cash to actually grow their business. Otherwise they wouldn't be paying it out as dividends.
 
Actually not a good sign at all.

Apple is basically telling you they can't use this cash to actually grow their business. Otherwise they wouldn't be paying it out as dividends.

Agreed. Dividends is what solid companies do that aren't about technological innovation that intends to grab the market. Example, Walmart. They aren't going anywhere, nor are they about to pull a rabbit out of a hat anytime soon. They have their market, they have their niche, and thats that.

Dividends are for people that have their market and aren't about to lose it. Apple doesn't have the market, and they are losing it.
 
They wouldn't use the money anyways to improve anything. All they do is sit on their free cash flow.
 
They have so much cash that I think his would barely affect their balance. They have what $140 BILLION in cash just sitting there doing nothing but pissing off the people investing in the company. Pissed off investors I imagine results in them not buying stock and Apple's stock continuing a freefall.
 
Using a moderate interest rate of 5% -- half of this dividend payout is already paid for "For free" in accumulated interest alone from their mountain of money (140 billion x 5%) and that''s being conservative.

Apple needs to figure out some new tricks or get into a new game because there is nothing exciting anymore from their phones or their other product lines.

Like others have said, this is just a "hey look over there away from all the boring stagnant crap we are doing, here's a few shiny nickles to distract you"
 
God Apple are being stupid.

Let the stock tank, then buy the fuckers out. Go private Apple, you really need to, before the Vultures eat you.
 
Using a moderate interest rate of 5% -- half of this dividend payout is already paid for "For free" in accumulated interest alone from their mountain of money (140 billion x 5%) and that''s being conservative.

Apple needs to figure out some new tricks or get into a new game because there is nothing exciting anymore from their phones or their other product lines.

Like others have said, this is just a "hey look over there away from all the boring stagnant crap we are doing, here's a few shiny nickles to distract you"

It's been years since I saw an interest rate at 5%. It's probably at like 1%.
 
Not a problem. The iPhone 6 will be revolutionary and pull Apple out of this slump. They may even alter a few design elements from the iPhone 4.
 
1-3 % is still too high. Not sure where you are getting data from.

On money? Have you tried getting at loan at all? Interest rates are closer to zero, but if you bank loaning money you are probably going to loan out at somewhere along the 1 to 4 percent line.

Modest return on stocks have been higher than 3-5 percent lately if you just follow the S&P 500.
 
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