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Most of Apple's $82 billion cash stockpile is 'trapped' overseas. Apple may have enough cash on hand to make Scrooge McDuck's money vault look like a kiddie pool by comparison, but according to SeekingAlpha, most of that cash is effectively trapped overseas.

Most of Apple's $82 billion cash stockpile is 'trapped' overseas

US$54 billion of Apple's overall $82 billion in cash is in offshore accounts, and Apple cannot repatriate that money to the States unless it wants to pay a huge 35 percent corporate tax on it. If Apple attempted to bring that money into the States, right off the bat through the magic of taxes that $54 billion would transform into $35.1 billion, with the other $18.9 billion disappearing down the federal money hole. With that much cash at stake, it's no wonder that Apple hasn't been in any hurry to repatriate its huge foreign cash reserves. SeekingAlpha's analysis of Apple's 10Ks shows that Apple's foreign cash and investments are growing far faster than those in the US, and with sales in China continuing to ramp up year after year, that pace is only going to increase.

Corporate Dividend Policy, Dividend Payout Ratio, and Dividend Yield. Are high dividends good or bad?

Corporate Dividend Policy, Dividend Payout Ratio, and Dividend Yield

The answer depends upon your personality, financial circumstances and the business itself. In Determining Dividend Payout: When Should Companies Pay Dividends? , you learned that, “a company should only pay dividends if it is unable to reinvest its cash at a higher rate than the shareholders (owners) of the business would be able to if the money was in their hands. If company ABC is earning 25% on equity with no debt, management should retain all of the earnings because the average investor probably won't find another company or investment that is yielding that kind of return.”

At the same time, an investor may require cash income for living expenses. Dividend Payout Ratio The percentage of net income that is paid out in the form of dividend is known as the dividend payout ratio. Calculating Dividend Payout Ratio Coca-Cola’s 2003 cash flow statement shows that the company paid $2.166 billion in dividends to shareholders. Dividend Yield = 0.0077 or 0.77% How the Stock Market and Economy Really Work - Kel Kelly. "A growing economy consists of prices falling, not rising.

" The stock market does not work the way most people think. A commonly held belief — on Main Street as well as on Wall Street — is that a stock-market boom is the reflection of a progressing economy: as the economy improves, companies make more money, and their stock value rises in accordance with the increase in their intrinsic value. A major assumption underlying this belief is that consumer confidence and consequent consumer spending are drivers of economic growth. A stock-market bust, on the other hand, is held to result from a drop in consumer and business confidence and spending — due to inflation, rising oil prices, high interest rates, etc., or for no reason at all — that leads to declining business profits and rising unemployment.

The Fundamental Source of All Rising Prices For perspective, let's put stock prices aside for a moment and make sure first to understand how aggregate consumer prices rise. Forced Investing.