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Paying a dividend is what a company does if it thinks it cannot invest the money better than its shareholders could. Apple thinks it can make good use of billi

by loumf 15y ago

Paying a dividend is what a company does if it thinks it cannot invest the money better than its shareholders could. Apple thinks it can make good use of billions of dollars and Microsoft thinks you can do better with the dividend.

smackfu 15y ago
It doesn't seem like Apple really has a plan for it's pile of cash. They just don't want to pay a dividend and they don't want to buy back stock and they don't want to acquire much so it just keeps building up.
- Pooter 15y ago
  The fact that you don't see any plan doesn't mean there isn't one.
- loumf 15y ago
  They claim to be making strategic purchases in bulk of some component (rumored to be displays) in order to get low prices and crowd others out.