Re:Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program
by pilom on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:33PM
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It is not the finance industry which would push for this, it is the shareholders. When you take a company public, you give away some control of the company. Now some of those controlling interests think that Apple shouldn't sit on one of the largest cash reserves in history. If you don't like this, work with private companies.
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Re:Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program
by nikhilsaraf9 on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:52PM
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I agree with you that the shareholders control public companies (mainly by the stock price). In a free market this would mean that the stock holders have indirectly indicated that it is best for Apple to give back cash instead of hoarding it because they feel Apple has no better investment they can make. IMO Apple has so much in cash reserves that if they tried to invest most of it they would be very loose and would make not so lucrative investments, so it may just be best that they return some of it back the way they are, and also invest some more in R&D.