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As a shareholder, they should raise the dividend. If you can't find opportunity to invest the money, it should be returned to the shareholders. I'm all for keeping cash around for a rainy day or for future opportunities but not 33% of your market cap. That is an absurd misallocation of capital.

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I expect if a bill passes significantly lowering the tax rate on repatriated profits that Apple will pay a large one time dividend to shareholders.

But until then those profits are trapped overseas. Apple can borrow against them to pay dividends, but that only goes so far.

Or share buybacks, which I imagine management will push for

If investors agreed with you, the stock price would drop and it would increase to even more than 33% of market cap

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