Apple, to Use The Vast Treasures for Cash Dividends, Share Buybacks

Apple, to Use The Vast Treasures for Cash Dividends, Share Buybacks: Apple has announced it will spend part of their cash reserves of nearly 100 billion dollars in quarterly dividends and a three-year share repurchase.

The company said it would pay shareholders $ 2.65 per share at the beginning of each quarter to the fourth fiscal quarter of Apple, which begins July 1. The company said it expects that Apple, dividend action will make it more attractive for investors to invest more broadly, including those seeking to make a steady income to the shares.

The company has faced years of pressure from Wall Street to stop sitting on huge cash his treasure, and share the wealth with shareholders.

In a conference call with investors this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said the company will spend $ 10 billion three-year share repurchase. Shares of Apple's purchase of degree to be able to award more shares to their employees without diluting the value of existing shares, what happens when some segments of society in a larger number of small actions.

The company said it spent $ 45 billion in combined initiatives over the next three years.

"Quarterly Dividend provide recurring income to our shareholders, and we also believe that it is expanding the investor base of Apple, to attract new investors who are not currently own shares of Apple," says Cook. "Innovation is the most important goal in the Apple, and we will not be overlooked. These solutions will not close all the doors for us."

Action by Apple, has grown by about 1.59%, or $ 9.33 in early trading after the announcement.

Apple, the most valuable company in the world's stock price by nearly $ 555 billion, as well as one of the greatest treasures in cash. It was about one third of its $ 98 billion in cash last year, after record sales of its iPhone and IPad mobile devices. In the first quarter of fiscal 2012 the company collected an additional $ 16 billion in cash.

Seeing the huge balance of funds, many investors have asked Apple, to start issuing dividends to be more attractive for investment, especially for large mutual funds focused on stocks that pay regular dividends.

Cook said that the launch of Apple, last week, its new Tablet PC IPad led to "a weekend record," but did not comment on the amount sold by the company. Analysts expect that Apple will sell 2 million to 3 million IPad the end of March.

When asked about what products Apple, perhaps, will be released later this year, Cook said that "the pipeline is full of things. I think our customers will be extremely pleased by what they see out."