I loaded up the S&P 500 into the equity screener on the Bloomberg terminal and got a sum for the cash and marketable securities column. (Apple correctly shows 9

I loaded up the S&P 500 into the equity screener on the Bloomberg terminal and got a sum for the cash and marketable securities column. (Apple correctly shows 96.7B in the column, so I know it is comparing apples to apples.) The data comes from the latest filing of each company. edit: I see what they did. The bottom chart is showing cash from operations, which is a totally different data point. That chart is old (2011 Q3).. the cash from operations value for the S&P 500 is now 1.65T and Apple is 45.31B, or roughly 2.75%. Their "Top 10" list is wrong by either metric. The 10 companies with the highest cash and marketable securities (what they are showing) are: JPMorgan Chase - $380.20B Bank of America - $357.29B Berkshire Hathaway - $162.47B Bank NY Mellon - $135.25B General Electric - $131.87B Apple Inc - $ 97.60B State St Corp - $ 68.12B Wells Fargo & Co - $ 63.81B Goldman Sachs - $ 56.01B Microsoft Corp - $ 51.74B