They're gonna buy the NASA shuttles and send astronauts to the moon to paint the Apple logo on it. Best advertising space evah!
They could too! A shuttle costs around $1.7 Billion to build and $450 million to launch it into orbit. A moon expedition would eat the rest of that 100 Billion though probably. Interesting to know that they have the means to do it. Shuttle Costs Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#1
I was just thinking: Stock Split? Then they'd do some acquisitions after? They might do this instead of a dividend. I would think a dividend would send out the wrong signal.
No, thats how much it costs a bureaucratic government to build and launch a shuttle. It cost $26 million to design & build Spaceship one (virgin Galactic). If you gave a private firm $1 billion dollars, they could probably send a human to mars with that money. Look at NASA...They were ordered to waste 1.4 million dollars per day on a defunct project because of bureaucracy. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...110323_1_spending-bill-partisan-politics-nasa
2.65 share dividends. But at least Apple is upfront on the 10B a year buyback mainly going to be a net wash for investors since it will be just buying back newly minted shares handed out to insiders.