Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway trimmed or eliminated its stakes in several pharmaceuticals. Its largest holding, by far, is Apple …
Tag: Apple dividends
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…
Starbucks wins, Fiat loses, Apple kept guessing in EU tax grab rulings
Starbucks Corp. won a court fight and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV unit lost one over European Union tax orders in decisions…
Apple may get clues about its chances of winning tax case of the century
Apple has been arguing its case at the European Union’s General Court to topple a record 13 billion-euro ($14.3 billion) EU tax order…
Apple and Ireland blast European Commission’s ‘fairy story’ behind $14 billion EU tax grab
Apple accused the European Commission of misunderstanding its business on day two of the iPhone maker’s appeal against a $14 billion tax order…
Apple slams EU as epic court battle over $14 billion tax clawback commences
Lawyers for the world’s biggest company faced EU officials in the Luxembourg court, challenging a decision that CEO Tim Cook slammed at the time as “total political crap” with no basis in law…
Apple says $14 billion EU tax clawback ‘defies reality and common sense’
Apple is appealing to Europe’s second highest court to overturn the European Commission’s 2016 ruling that it pay the record sum of over 13 billion euros to Ireland…
Apple takes fight against $14.4 billion EU tax grab to court
Apple is expected to send a six-man delegation headed by Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri to the two-day court hearing…
Apple to fight EU’s $14 billion tax grab in European court next month
Since 2016, both Apple and Ireland have been denying the merit of the European Union’s tax clawback…
Apple stock to trade ex-dividend within days
Apple has been growing earnings at a rapid rate, and has a conservatively low payout ratio, implying that it is reinvesting heavily…
Analyst: Buy Apple for its earnings-boosting stock buyback plan
Investors shouldn’t buy Apple’s stock because a 5G iPhone may arrive in 2021 or the new Apple TV+ will suck in a massive number of subscribers…
Ireland invests disputed Apple taxes in low-risk bonds
Ireland’s debt agency has invested disputed taxes collected from Apple in low risk, highly rated euro-dominated fixed income securities…
J.P. Morgan: Apple’s China issues ‘somewhat overblown,’ services underrated
Investor concerns about Apple’s fortunes in China are “somewhat overblown,” analysts from J.P. Morgan suggest…
Loving Apple’s small dividend raise in 2019
The quarterly dividend for the next year was boosted to $0.77…
Apple has made huge progress toward its ‘net cash neutral’ goal
In early 2018, just a couple months after tax reform was passed, Apple CFO Luca Maestri…
Analyst predicts Apple dividend increase with $35 billion buyback extension
Apple will be accelerating how it passes some of its giant cash hoard to investors…
What to expect from Apple’s Q219 earnings report
Apple is scheduled to publish its fiscal Q2 results on…
Apple’s history says Q2 will disappoint investors
With just about two weeks to go until technology giant Apple reports its fiscal second quarter…
Did Apple execute a major buyback late last month?
If so, that is obviously good for earnings per share, and it could mean good things for the potential dividend raise as well…
Apple: Large dividend raise coming?
When technology giant Apple reports its fiscal second quarter earnings…
