> "Smart, wealthy shareholders love cash hoarding" Any evidence to back this up? Activist investors generally pressure companies to not hoard cash, for exactly

> "Smart, wealthy shareholders love cash hoarding" Any evidence to back this up? Activist investors generally pressure companies to not hoard cash, for exactly the reasons outlined earlier. Example: http://money.com/money/3484599/icahn-letter-apple-cash/ http://money.com/money/3484599/icahn-letter-apple-cash/ "Icahn controls 53 million shares of Apple, worth $5.3 billion, which gives him about a 0.9% ownership in the company. In his letter, Icahn lays out his reasons that Apple should repurchase its own shares" Companies can return money to investors using share-buybacks - this avoids any taxable event for investors, while also not suffering from the downsides of hoarding cash. There is one significant tactic where it makes sense to hoard cash temporarily - keeping it overseas while waiting for a tax holiday or a reduction in the tax rates. This only works as a temporary tactic though. If any company announced that they were going to hoard cash over a long period, it would depress the share-price significantly. This is exactly why activist investors like Icahn pressure their companies to reduce their cash hoards.