Completely wild, uninformed, and ignorant guess: They'll buy Twitter or Intel.
In some ways I wish you were right, but I think anti-competition watch dogs may not approve of them buying Intel.
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#12Completely wild, uninformed, and ignorant guess: They'll buy Twitter or Intel.
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#13Just an example, if they paid out $50bn in a one time divvy, Fidelity would get around $2.6 billion.
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#14Completely wild, uninformed, and ignorant guess: They'll buy Twitter or Intel.
Intel's market cap is about twice their cash reserves, isn't it?
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let's hope not, because stock buy backs can be interpreted as a signal that management thinks tremendous earnings growth is behind the company.
Why? I've read that they offer few benefits, but I've never heard this explanation. I also don't see how it makes sense for a company in their position?
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My two worthless cents: an acquisition. Who they'll acquire is anyone's guess...a carrier (probably not), a content provider (maybe), or something more technical (my insane guess: ARM). Not that I know more than anyone else, but I don't feel Apple really paying a dividend out. They've never really seemed too beholden to shareholders in the past (well, the Steve Jobs past anyway), and I think they'd rather invest the…
Apple and Tim Cook have made it clear that they have more cash than what is required to run the business. Apple is spending billions on data infrastructure, manufacturing, pre-purchasing components and expanding retail operations; despite all these investments, they still have more cash than what they need. They will likely generate another $50B in cash this calendar year. Even if they want to maintain the $100B war…
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I think they'd be more likely to buy back stock than to start granting dividends.
let's hope not, because stock buy backs can be interpreted as a signal that management thinks tremendous earnings growth is behind the company.
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#19Dividend, book it. Major shareholders are probably getting antsy about it. Just an example, if they paid out $50bn in a one time divvy, Fidelity would get around $2.6 billion.
Personally I'm hoping for something more interesting than a special dividend. It does seem strange to have the announcement before the trading day begins though. I would think any big announcement would come after the close of trading.
Edit: Clarified that it is Fidelity's Apple stock that would be revalued.
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#20Completely wild, uninformed, and ignorant guess: They'll buy Twitter or Intel.