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How will Apple’s new CFO handle dividends and buybacks?
Apple on Monday announced that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will…
Apple’s $0.25 per share dividend is payable on August 15th
Apple distributes its quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share to its common stock (AAPL) shareholders on August 15th…
Following Apple’s lead, Big Tech embraces a hallmark of pre-internet stocks
Shareholders aren’t just seeing their stock prices swell, they are getting paid too. The dividend, its importance demoted over the past…
Apple has a low earnings bar to clear with big buyback hopes
Apple has low expectations from Wall Street analysts and investors for its second-quarter results due right after the close on Thursday…
Apple bonds are yielding more than 5%. Apple stock has a 0.5% dividend yield
Apple’s 10-year bonds currently yield about 5.20%. In comparison, the implied dividend yield on Apple’s stock at current prices is 0.54%…
How Apple’s market value can surpass $4 trillion
The value of Apple’s buybacks is often under-appreciated, especially during a period of slowing growth like Apple is experiencing currently…
Don’t own Apple stock for the dividends
Concurrent with the second quarter of fiscal 2023 results published in early May, Apple declared a new quarterly payout of $0.24 per share…
What Apple’s cash ‘problem’ means for AAPL investors
Apple has a problem that most of us would love: It has too much cash. For AAPL investors, that means massive buybacks and healthy…
Apple expected to boost its dividend and stock buybacks once again
When Apple reports earnings late this month, the company is widely expected to increase its dividend and boost stock buybacks once again…
Why Apple stock is doing better than other Big Tech companies
Like most U.S. stocks of late, Apple isn’t doing great, but it’s doing better than other Big Tech companies due to myriad reasons…
Where will Apple stock be 5 years from now?
There are plenty of reasons to believe that Apple stock can perform well over the next five years. Just ask Warren Buffett…
Apple rules the S&P 500 with highest weighting for any company in over 40 years
Apple, the world’s largest company by stock market value, at $2.7 trillion, this week accounted for 7.3% of the S&P 500. That’s the highest…
New U.S. buyback tax will force companies to think twice on how to use cash
U.S. Senate Democrats’ so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” about which there’s low confidence that the legislation will have any positive…
Apple plummets 22% from January peak as tech stock selloff spreads
Apple shares fell on Thursday, with the stock now some 22% below its January peak as a selloff in technology stocks spreads to the…
Warren Buffett bought $600 million worth of Apple shares last quarter
Warren Buffett bought even more of Apple, far and away his No.1 stock, on the dip during the Cupertino Colossus’ first quarter sell-off…
Warren Buffett in Berkshire Hathaway annual letter calls Apple one of ‘Four Giants’
Warren Buffett called Apple one of “Four Giants” and the second-most important business after Berkshire Hathaway’s cluster of insurers…
The value of Warren Buffett’s Apple investment increased by $8 billion in less than a day
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which owns over 5% of outstanding Apple stock, notched more than $8 billion in gains on Friday…
Apple is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s largest stake – by far
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway trimmed or eliminated its stakes in several pharmaceuticals. Its largest holding, by far, is Apple …
Apple taps U.S. bond market with new four-part debt offering
Apple is once again tapping the U.S. investment-grade bond market with a new debt offering in as many as four parts as the tech giant…
Apple steamrolls Street, posts all-time record quarterly earnings
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2021 third quarter ended June 26, 2021. The Company posted a June quarter record revenue…
Apple has a problem: They’re too good at making money
Apple has a problem. They’re too good at making money. Their most recent quarterly statement revealed that they are sitting on $38 billion…
Another massive quarter blowout for Apple
Apple on Wednesday announced financial results for its fiscal 2021 second quarter ended March 27, 2021. The company posted a March quarter…
Apple demolishes Street, posts all-time record quarterly earnings
Apple today announced its fiscal 2021 second quarter earnings results. Apple’s conference call to discuss second fiscalquarter results is…
Strong demand for Apple’s $14 billion debt deal
Apple saw strong demand for for its new $14 billion debt deal on Monday, attracting more than $33 billion worth of orders…
Apple selling $14 billion of debt to fund buybacks, dividends
Apple is selling $14 billion of debt to take advantage of cheap borrowing costs, tapping the bond market for a third time since May as…
In bid to overturn $15.7 billion Apple tax verdict, EU claims court made errors
EU antitrust bureaucrats have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their 13 billion euro ($15.7B) Apple tax grab in Ireland…
Apple has become a dividend powerhouse
Apple has become a dividend powerhouse. At the end of October, Apple’s Board declared a cash dividend of $0.205 per share of the…
Apple has outperformed the broader market under President Trump
All five companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft — have outperformed the broader market under President Trump …
Apple: ‘We have always abided by the law in Ireland,’ as EU appeals tax grab loss
On Friday, Apple said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros…
Apple court triumph forces tough choice for Vestager’s EU tax crusade
Apple’s July court triumph over a massive European Union tax grab is forcing antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to make a tough choice…
Apple’s dividend could double
Over the past six months, many companies have reduced or suspended dividends in order to conserve cash throughout the COVID-19 pandemic…
Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU
Apple won its court fight over a record $14.9 billion Irish tax grab in a crushing blow to EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager…
The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting awfully close to backing Apple stock
By buying Apple bonds, the U.S. Federal Reserve is getting awfully close to backing Apple stock. As a reminder, it’s the largest U.S. company…
Does Apple’s share repurchase strategy make sense in this market?
On April 30, 2020, Apple Inc.’s board of directors has also authorized an increase of $50 billion to the existing buyback program…
Apple takes on $8.5 billion in new debt
Apple Inc. makes borrowing during a pandemic look as easy as pie. Apple on Monday took on $8.5 billion in new debt with a four-part bond deal, adding…
Apple shareholders set to receive billions more
Apple today reported that profits slipped slightly, but sales grew and the company promised shareholders billions more in stock repurchases and…
Analyst expects Apple to add up to $100 billion to buyback program
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many companies are suspending their plans for buybacks, but Apple is expected to remain aggressive…
Analyst projects multi-quarter COVID-19 impact on Apple iPhone
Apple in February said it had both supply and demand issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Argus projects the negative impact is likely to play out…
Apple: All about the buybacks?
For the past seven years, Apple has relentlessly pursued a highly aggressive buyback policy. Over 313 billion dollars have been spent…
AAPL investors should thank Apple for keeping dividends relatively low
In fiscal 2019, Apple paid $14.1 billion in dividends and spent $67.1 billion buying back its stock. Many billions more are on the horizon…
Apple now accounts for more than 15% of Berkshire Hathaway’s book value
Here’s how much Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has made on Apple…
