No. The dividends are less than 1% of the share price. For it to be considered to be profitable on dividends alone I think it would need to pay 10% or more. I d

No. The dividends are less than 1% of the share price. For it to be considered to be profitable on dividends alone I think it would need to pay 10% or more. I don't expect it to increase by 1000%. http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm Edit: looks like I was wrong about the price. That seems to be the quarterly dividend. So it's 2% and it could go up. http://www.thestreet.com/dividends/leaders/index.html http://www.thestreet.com/dividends/leaders/index.html Edit 2: Here's a graph of Apple's dividend yield: http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/dividend_yield http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/dividend_yield