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Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune

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Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...

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CK11
·2021-05-01
Rich pocket also problems...
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- KF73:
  Happy to have
  2021-05-01
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- CK11:
  [财迷]
  2021-05-01
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- SquareGuy:
  share buyback again? nothing new yet
  2021-05-01
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eiileen
·2021-04-30
Will you buy apple now?
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- stocksown:
  good
  2021-05-03
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ccmk
·2021-04-30
Like and Comment please~ [抱拳]
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lks
·2021-04-30
Growth companies need cash to invest in their R&D. So I would say this is a happy problem to hv
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Melvin888
·2021-04-30
Pay more dividends n more buyback
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LoLoMiNi
·2021-04-30
I see
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Wallstrtbets
·2021-04-30
Gimme some lor.
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Idez
·2021-04-30
[得意]
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JJQ
·2021-04-30
👍
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KinKat
·2021-04-30
That translates to ~$12/share. One good way to return the money to shareholders is via a Capital Reduction exercise. Fm tax POV, may be better than increasing dividends (Singapore shareholders loses 30% to Withholding Tax). However, iirc, most of the Cash are overseas & it'll be heavily taxed if repatriated back to US.
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- Samluo:
  Why not share buybacks?
  2021-05-01
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- KinKat:
  Share buy back will be slower as it can drive up prices if done too fast. There may also be instances where mkt price > buy back price & none will be bought
  2021-05-02
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Pangabui
·2021-04-30
[微笑] [微笑] [微笑]
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_JC
·2021-04-30
🚀🚀🚀 like and comment please!
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- KinKat:
  done
  2021-04-30
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- _JC:
  Thanks!
  2021-04-30
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Huatbig
·2021-04-30
🚀🚀🚀
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Dwnt
·2021-04-30
Comment
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StepUp
·2021-04-30
The excess cash is one reason I believe apple car is coming soon
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Syrope
·2021-04-30
Anyone feels the same way as me: companies posting good results but somehow their share price keeps falling..?
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- Goldox:
  Yes!
  2021-04-30
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- Syrope:
  Sad right? Strange..
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UTOtrader
·2021-04-30
Sell n profit$
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  hahaha
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Slee49
·2021-04-30
A Giant Growth Company
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Mireyachen
·2021-04-30
APPLE!!
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  Buy buy
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Lifestyle
·2021-04-30
Apple has matured in the market. EV stocks is just the beginning and will overtake in the long run
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Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. 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And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4186610,"gmtCreate":1619826983274,"gmtModify":1635506804541,"authorId":3579568649549102,"author":{"id":3579568649549102,"idStr":"3579568649549102","authorId":3579568649549102,"name":"KF73","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/08cb18d8dbd8d12a776f947554bdb6e6","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103743774,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Happy to <u>have</u>","text":"Happy to <u>have</u>","html":"Happy to <u>have</u>"},{"id":4186613,"gmtCreate":1619827013999,"gmtModify":1635506804161,"authorId":3581899057268262,"author":{"id":3581899057268262,"idStr":"3581899057268262","authorId":3581899057268262,"name":"CK11","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0923eb4b52245eb1bf4d6c510566f9f5","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103743774,"type":1,"supId":4186610,"prevId":0,"content":"[财迷]","text":"[财迷]","html":"[财迷]"},{"id":4188228,"gmtCreate":1619834908173,"gmtModify":1635506639420,"authorId":3561259559295872,"author":{"id":3561259559295872,"idStr":"3561259559295872","authorId":3561259559295872,"name":"SquareGuy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c4aa86e9311a7ff0643a2e9f93645a8c","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103743774,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"share buyback again?&nbsp; nothing new yet","text":"share buyback again?&nbsp; nothing new yet","html":"share buyback again?&nbsp; nothing new yet"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103517128,"gmtCreate":1619793195164,"gmtModify":1634209880526,"author":{"id":"3581853856981923","authorId":"3581853856981923","name":"eiileen","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/79753946c0327017ff2bcd986354301b","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581853856981923","authorIdStr":"3581853856981923"},"htmlText":"Will you buy apple now?","listText":"Will you buy apple now?","text":"Will you buy apple now?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103517128","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":103282836,"gmtCreate":1619787558225,"gmtModify":1631893444640,"author":{"id":"3568173757403571","authorId":"3568173757403571","name":"lks","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a57ae82052ee22841b4ff92c03b5c6b0","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3568173757403571","authorIdStr":"3568173757403571"},"htmlText":"Growth companies need cash to invest in their R&amp;D. So I would say this is a happy problem to hv","listText":"Growth companies need cash to invest in their R&amp;D. So I would say this is a happy problem to hv","text":"Growth companies need cash to invest in their R&D. So I would say this is a happy problem to hv","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103282836","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103218283,"gmtCreate":1619786369242,"gmtModify":1634209952689,"author":{"id":"3577938728188071","authorId":"3577938728188071","name":"Melvin888","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1f7e36200d6d8c6159f6d35c041d8e3e","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577938728188071","authorIdStr":"3577938728188071"},"htmlText":"Pay more dividends n more buyback&nbsp;","listText":"Pay more dividends n more buyback&nbsp;","text":"Pay more dividends n more buyback","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103218283","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103688935,"gmtCreate":1619777042827,"gmtModify":1631883991521,"author":{"id":"3577917165320806","authorId":"3577917165320806","name":"KinKat","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/05a5d7e664c9e14d1097e19f1846ce94","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577917165320806","authorIdStr":"3577917165320806"},"htmlText":"That translates to ~$12/share. One good way to return the money to shareholders is via a Capital Reduction exercise. Fm tax POV, may be better than increasing dividends (Singapore shareholders loses 30% to Withholding Tax). However, iirc, most of the Cash are overseas &amp; it'll be heavily taxed if repatriated back to US.","listText":"That translates to ~$12/share. One good way to return the money to shareholders is via a Capital Reduction exercise. Fm tax POV, may be better than increasing dividends (Singapore shareholders loses 30% to Withholding Tax). However, iirc, most of the Cash are overseas &amp; it'll be heavily taxed if repatriated back to US.","text":"That translates to ~$12/share. One good way to return the money to shareholders is via a Capital Reduction exercise. Fm tax POV, may be better than increasing dividends (Singapore shareholders loses 30% to Withholding Tax). However, iirc, most of the Cash are overseas & it'll be heavily taxed if repatriated back to US.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103688935","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4193101,"gmtCreate":1619883320542,"gmtModify":1635506165517,"authorId":3555293442593045,"author":{"id":3555293442593045,"idStr":"3555293442593045","authorId":3555293442593045,"name":"Samluo","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/17478579b111537e74aea4d338e8aef5","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103688935,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Why not share buybacks?","text":"Why not share buybacks?","html":"Why not share buybacks?"},{"id":4193338,"gmtCreate":1619886301176,"gmtModify":1635506142167,"authorId":3577917165320806,"author":{"id":3577917165320806,"idStr":"3577917165320806","authorId":3577917165320806,"name":"KinKat","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/05a5d7e664c9e14d1097e19f1846ce94","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103688935,"type":1,"supId":4193101,"prevId":0,"content":"Share buy back will be slower as it can drive up prices if done too fast. There may also be instances where mkt price &gt; buy back price &amp; none will be bought","text":"Share buy back will be slower as it can drive up prices if done too fast. There may also be instances where mkt price &gt; buy back price &amp; none will be bought","html":"Share buy back will be slower as it can drive up prices if done too fast. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4181676,"gmtCreate":1619777059062,"gmtModify":1635507194499,"authorId":3577917165320806,"author":{"id":3577917165320806,"idStr":"3577917165320806","authorId":3577917165320806,"name":"KinKat","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/05a5d7e664c9e14d1097e19f1846ce94","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103871050,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>done</u>","text":"<u>done</u>","html":"<u>done</u>"},{"id":4181680,"gmtCreate":1619777070684,"gmtModify":1635507194004,"authorId":3577356150156131,"author":{"id":3577356150156131,"idStr":"3577356150156131","authorId":3577356150156131,"name":"_JC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/61ccde2106ea9cac4b559a9472067cad","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103871050,"type":1,"supId":4181676,"prevId":0,"content":"Thanks!","text":"Thanks!","html":"Thanks!"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103820847,"gmtCreate":1619768962789,"gmtModify":1634210060591,"author":{"id":"3576196378984875","authorId":"3576196378984875","name":"Huatbig","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/51de7be3c41f6f9c5c0b6a1b7fd6aa68","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576196378984875","authorIdStr":"3576196378984875"},"htmlText":"🚀🚀🚀","listText":"🚀🚀🚀","text":"🚀🚀🚀","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103820847","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4181165,"gmtCreate":1619771742208,"gmtModify":1635507229158,"authorId":3577356150156131,"author":{"id":3577356150156131,"idStr":"3577356150156131","authorId":3577356150156131,"name":"_JC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/61ccde2106ea9cac4b559a9472067cad","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103820847,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Huatz","text":"Huatz","html":"Huatz"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103865786,"gmtCreate":1619768758945,"gmtModify":1634210062729,"author":{"id":"3558619043136260","authorId":"3558619043136260","name":"Dwnt","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5a2544b7ef57fe7791a38d2663962692","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3558619043136260","authorIdStr":"3558619043136260"},"htmlText":"Comment","listText":"Comment","text":"Comment","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103865786","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103839177,"gmtCreate":1619764089399,"gmtModify":1634210084197,"author":{"id":"3582110607927501","authorId":"3582110607927501","name":"Syrope","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7ddaf202594282f1436af195f5cd39e4","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582110607927501","authorIdStr":"3582110607927501"},"htmlText":"Anyone feels the same way as me: companies posting good results but somehow their share price keeps falling..?&nbsp;","listText":"Anyone feels the same way as me: companies posting good results but somehow their share price keeps falling..?&nbsp;","text":"Anyone feels the same way as me: companies posting good results but somehow their share price keeps falling..?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103839177","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4181014,"gmtCreate":1619770706647,"gmtModify":1635507239752,"authorId":3574248655626938,"author":{"id":3574248655626938,"idStr":"3574248655626938","authorId":3574248655626938,"name":"Goldox","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/863110a9408a00f21e04f570ea1c03f2","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103839177,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Yes!","text":"Yes!","html":"Yes!"},{"id":4182043,"gmtCreate":1619781206092,"gmtModify":1635507163900,"authorId":3582110607927501,"author":{"id":3582110607927501,"idStr":"3582110607927501","authorId":3582110607927501,"name":"Syrope","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7ddaf202594282f1436af195f5cd39e4","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":103839177,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Sad right? 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":103156235,"gmtCreate":1619758992527,"gmtModify":1634210115504,"author":{"id":"3580082297864003","authorId":"3580082297864003","name":"Mireyachen","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a91c46253c0f6f4ea2e6ca14c8079872","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580082297864003","authorIdStr":"3580082297864003"},"htmlText":"APPLE!!","listText":"APPLE!!","text":"APPLE!!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103156235","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. 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EV stocks is just the beginning and will overtake in the long run","listText":"Apple has matured in the market. EV stocks is just the beginning and will overtake in the long run","text":"Apple has matured in the market. EV stocks is just the beginning and will overtake in the long run","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103151223","repostId":1169468350,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1169468350","pubTimestamp":1619746070,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1169468350?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1169468350","media":"investors","summary":"Not only didApplesmash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billi","content":"<p>Not only did<b>Apple</b>(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&amp;P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.</p><p>The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&amp;P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parent<b>Alphabet</b>(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. And<b>Microsoft</b>(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.</p><p>Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.</p><p><b>Mounting Piles Of Cash</b></p><p>Mounting cash piles at S&amp;P 500 companies aregetting more attention.</p><p>Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&amp;P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.</p><p>\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices.</p><p>Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.</p><p>It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.</p><p>That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.</p><p>And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.</p><p>Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.</p><p>The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&amp;P 500 (SPY).</p><p><b>What All That Cash Is Costing Apple</b></p><p>Apple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.</p><p>Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&amp;P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.</p><p>So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?</p><p><b>What To Do With All That Cash?</b></p><p>S&amp;P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.</p><p>Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&amp;P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.</p><p>S&amp;P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&amp;P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?</p><p>When will S&amp;P 500 investors demand to get their cash?</p>","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple's Got A $204 Billion 'Problem' That's Costing It A Fortune\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 09:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220><strong>investors</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every-american-apple-has-more-cash-than-anyone/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1169468350","content_text":"Not only didApple(AAPL)smash first-quarter profit forecasts, it just broke past another S&P 500 threshold: cash. The problem is the company can't get rid of it fast enough — which is costing investors.The tech sector giant ended the three months ended in March 2021 with cash and investments of $204 billion. That's up nearly 5% in a month and keeps Apple No. 1, by far, in the S&P 500 in terms of cash on hand. Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL) in the communications services sector is a distant No. 2 with $160 billion in cash and investments. AndMicrosoft(MSFT) comes in third with $130 billion, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence andMarketSmith, excluding the financial sector.Apple's cash pile continues to accumulate, despite aggressive efforts to get rid of it. Talk about a good, but costly, problem to have.Mounting Piles Of CashMounting cash piles at S&P 500 companies aregetting more attention.Companies stockpiling cash wasfine with investorsduring the uncertainty of the pandemic. But now, cries for higher dividends and stock buybacks are getting louder. Excluding financials, S&P 500 companies' cash and investments is up this year to more than $2.7 trillion.\"I would expect to see additional (dividend) initiations from (companies) that previously suspended, and increases from some that reduced their rate, dependent on how the economy reacts to the vaccine progress, any new developments with respect to the virus spread and mutants, and any consumer spending reactions,\" said Howard Silverblatt, index strategist at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Apple's cash pile is impressive. But it's a costly luxury.It ended the March quarter with $38.5 billion in cash, $31.4 billion in short-term marketable securities and $134.5 billion in long-term marketable securities. Marketable securities are investments that can be quickly and easily turned into cash. A bulk of Apple's marketable securities are held in U.S. Treasuries.That's enough to give all 328 million men, women and children in the U.S. $623 apiece.And that's the criticism. Cash and Treasuries are a bad place to be now. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury is just 1.62%. That's half what it was in 2018.Apple's cash and investments first topped $200 billion in the fiscal year ended in September 2015. Since then it has aggressively tried to dispense of it. Apple announced plans this week for billions in capital expenditures. It's also raising its stock buyback program by $90 billion. Additionally, it hiked its quarterly dividend by 7% to 22 cents a share. That means Apple yields more than 0.6%, in an sector not known for ahigh yield.The yield on the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) is 0.8%. That's well below the 1.4% dividend yield of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).What All That Cash Is Costing AppleApple continues to print money faster than it can get rid of it. But the opportunity cost of holding so much cash is staggeringly large. A 1.62% yield on $204 billion is just $3.3 billion a year.Putting that massive amount of money to better use could be highly profitable. That same money invested in Apple's own stock a year ago would have resulted in a gain of $174 billion. Just getting an S&P 500-like long-term return equals $20 billion annually.So by holding hundreds of billions, Apple investors are losing out on billions. Whatshould you look at before buying Apple stock?What To Do With All That Cash?S&P 500 nonfinancial companies are sitting on a record $1.9 trillion in cash alone (excluding investments), says S&P Global Market Intelligence.Dividends are rising. Investors are also prepping for a big jump in buybacks, too. S&P 500 companies spent $130.6 billion buying back their shares in the fourth quarter of 2020, says S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's up from a recent low of $88.7 billion in the second quarter. Companies are also borrowing less. U.S. companies issued just $192.3 billion in debt in March, down 26% from the same year-ago period.S&P 500 companies can afford to pay more to investors. Apple is only paying out 22% of earnings as a dividend (prior to its latest dividend hike).IBD Long-Term Leader Microsoftyields just 0.9% and pays out less than 30% of profit. And Alphabet, the No. 2 richest S&P 500 company andLeaderboard member, pays no dividend at all. Should youbuy Alphabet stock now?When will S&P 500 investors demand to get their cash?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":97,"commentSize":44,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}