“The world’s biggest company just became the biggest source of dividends in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index,” Joseph Ciolli reports for Bloomberg.
“Apple Inc. raised its dividend by 10.6 percent to $2.08, putting it on the hook for about $12.1 billion in annual payments, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and S&P,” Ciolli reports. “That eclipses the $11.6 billion sent out in dividends each year by Exxon Mobil Corp., the previous title holder.”
“Apple’s $50 billion increase in its buyback authorization boosted the total repurchases announced by American companies to a record $133.6 billion in April, data compiled by Birinyi Associates Inc. show,” Ciolli reports. “So far this year, buybacks have amounted to almost $400 billion, with February, March and April accounting for three out of the four busiest months ever.”
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MacDailyNews Take: For context, as recently as 2009, Apple’s annual net income did not exceed $12.1 billion ($5.7 billion in 2009… $39.51 billion in 2014).
Amazing, Bob Ciura wrote for Seeking Alpha and complained of Apple’s paltry dividend increase that was disappointing for investors. Go figure!
Nothing at all difficult to figure out with those two articles. Ciolli is referring to Apple as the company that is making the biggest total dividend payment to be split amongst it’s shareholders ( he estimated $12.1 billion in total ). Ciura was talking about the percentage increase in dividend per share and hoping that each share would attract a higher dividend payment.
Both authors are correct in what they say, they’re simply talking about different aspects of Apple’s dividend payments.
Yes, but in my opinion he choose his point as a way to bash Apple when Apple did not deserve to be bashed. In other words he needed clicks so he picked that point to click-whore about.
Wow. That opinion statement got you 10 down votes.
Trolls are so sad.
Someone, something or some company has a trollbot that down votes multiple times at least three posters here. Oh well, I hope MDN gets ad revenue each time it happens.
No matter what Apple does for Wall Street, there will always be dissatisfied investors ready to sell off their Apple stock and personally I still think it’s foolish.
This week is no indicator that Apple is doing anything right, so toss it aside and look towards brighter days as Apple repurchases more shares.
Never forget the context!
Well, that didn’t last long. Exxon just
Boosted its dividend surpassing AAPL’s. I think Apple should see Exxon’s hand and raise it by another 10%.
All companies with shareholders should pay out 80% of the profits.”It’s the shareholders money”.
And before you start crying about how this would hurt the company, realize that in order for the company to retain more of the money all they have to do is own more shares. This 1.5%, 2%, 3% is nuts. The company gets to keep 98.5%, for what? Rock star CEOs? (not just Apple I speak of) Pay the money out, quit trying to convince me how much better off I am by letting someone else have my money. As I have said before, let me worry about mt taxes.
I realize so many other don’t agree with me, cause tax liability, growth company, blah, blah, blah, so let’s have an op out policy. Those that don’t want their 80% of the profits can tell the company, they are invested in, and the company can keep that money with the understanding that you will never take a dividend you will make your money when you sell your shares.
With Apple now down $10 this week, looks like a good time for an Apple Buyback.
Why, do buy back at this price, the stock is going lower. 90 billion in possible back taxes. Oh my!
Typical …. Some good comments, some not so ….
Bottom line is Apple is a great company and when your at the top there will ALWAYS be folks trying to take it down a notch ….. Others trying to help Apple reach even higher!