Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon

88
46
Favorite

Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon

seekingalpha2021-04-05

Summary Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th. Investors expecting annual dividend raise. I don't see a major increase coming. Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images Last month, I discussed...

Source Link

Disclaimer: Investing carries risk. This is not financial advice. The above content should not be regarded as an offer, recommendation, or solicitation on acquiring or disposing of any financial products, any associated discussions, comments, or posts by author or other users should not be considered as such either. It is solely for general information purpose only, which does not consider your own investment objectives, financial situations or needs. TTM assumes no responsibility or warranty for the accuracy and completeness of the information, investors should do their own research and may seek professional advice before investing.

Report

Comment（46）

YawYee
·2021-04-05
Buy
Reply
Like
Report
Raychris
·2021-04-05
Oh great
Reply
Like
Report
Clickhere
·2021-04-05
[強]
Reply
1
Report
Lynny
·2021-04-05
Small raise in dividend is great. I would rather they use their cash to buyback shares since we are not taxed on capital gains but there’s a whopping 30% tax on dividends
Reply
1
Report
Fold Replies
- Sumei:
  Yes, while dividends are great, share buybacks increase the value of each share.
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
Raychris
·2021-04-05
This is good news
Reply
Like
Report
Derpinerp
·2021-04-05
How does tiger transfer dividends?
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- DerpinerpReplying toLynny:
  I see thank you!!
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
- LynnyReplying toDerpinerp:
  Yes i believe so
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
- Derpinerp:
  so the 30% dividend tax for US stocks will be deducted prior?
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
View more 1 comments
DenDenBear
·2021-04-05
Reply and like thanks
Reply
Like
Report
michelle33
·2021-04-05
[微笑] [微笑] [微笑]
Reply
1
Report
WTurtle
·2021-04-05
Great
Reply
Like
Report
w3tan
·2021-04-05
Looking to enter if price drop
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- Gabriel林倡銘:
  Same here
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
HOTBE
·2021-04-05
Good news, waiting!
Reply
1
Report
Chaishen
·2021-04-05
Share buy back is a good move
Reply
Like
Report
DarrenChong
·2021-04-05
nice
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- Skylar217:
  Ok
  2021-04-07
  Reply
  Report
- DarrenChong:
  yes
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
Slowdownpok
·2021-04-05
Apple is dividend stock now?
Reply
Like
Report
bluedolphin
·2021-04-05
Comment and like please. Thanks
Reply
1
Report
Fold Replies
- buckethead:
  ok done
  2021-04-06
  Reply
  Report
BellaEng
·2021-04-05
More please
Reply
1
Report
Fold Replies
- Jweikit:
  Nive
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
- BellaEng:
  ?
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
- SKHan:
  Yes
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
Starbucks
·2021-04-05
Wow! Looking forward! [財迷] [財迷]
Reply
4
Report
Fold Replies
- Nobi:
  wow
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
- Ski58:
  [得意]
  2021-04-05
  Reply
  Report
Clumsypig
·2021-04-05
回購比調股息好，收益更高
Reply
1
Report
GTJW18
·2021-04-05
Nice!!
Reply
1
Report
Ericalow
·2021-04-05
Yass
Reply
Like
Report

Most Discussed

7x24

All

Terms and Conditions·Privacy Policy

Company: TTMF Limited. Tech supported by Xiangshang Yixin.

Email：uservice@ttm.financial

{"i18n":{"language":"en_US"},"data":{"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","id":"1173275548","market":"us","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","media":"seekingalpha","content":"<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":"AAPL","symbol_name":"苹果","start_time":0,"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","article_id":"1173275548","we_media_id":null,"thumbnails":[],"rights":null,"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"columns":[],"sourceInfo":{"source_id":"seekingalpha","name":"Seeking Alpha"},"weMediaInfo":null,"summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"seekingalpha.com","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"translate_title":"苹果：即将上调股息","themeId":null,"isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":null,"symbols_score_info":{"AAPL":0.9},"content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","kind":"news","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":349543670,"gmtCreate":1617629126990,"gmtModify":1704701056975,"author":{"id":"3571654856505367","authorId":"3571654856505367","name":"YawYee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/aa937157e1313628ba7480bd740607c1","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3571654856505367","authorIdStr":"3571654856505367"},"htmlText":"Buy&nbsp;","listText":"Buy&nbsp;","text":"Buy","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349543670","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349523119,"gmtCreate":1617627444531,"gmtModify":1704701031499,"author":{"id":"3573983104070220","authorId":"3573983104070220","name":"Raychris","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d6ba052a63ff93ee2d7ec595895d9b0e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3573983104070220","authorIdStr":"3573983104070220"},"htmlText":"Oh great","listText":"Oh great","text":"Oh great","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349523119","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349529536,"gmtCreate":1617627404825,"gmtModify":1704701030853,"author":{"id":"3555414012443959","authorId":"3555414012443959","name":"Clickhere","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9b17629c6ba9de2b6b427f928cf8e214","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3555414012443959","authorIdStr":"3555414012443959"},"htmlText":"[強]&nbsp;","listText":"[強]&nbsp;","text":"[強]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349529536","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":349587558,"gmtCreate":1617626127574,"gmtModify":1704701015067,"author":{"id":"3576275613425159","authorId":"3576275613425159","name":"Lynny","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7c0b8b78e97626dedf9ed61da1957ab7","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576275613425159","authorIdStr":"3576275613425159"},"htmlText":"Small raise in dividend is great. I would rather they use their cash to buyback shares since we are not taxed on capital gains&nbsp;but there’s a whopping 30% tax on dividends&nbsp;","listText":"Small raise in dividend is great. I would rather they use their cash to buyback shares since we are not taxed on capital gains&nbsp;but there’s a whopping 30% tax on dividends&nbsp;","text":"Small raise in dividend is great. I would rather they use their cash to buyback shares since we are not taxed on capital gains but there’s a whopping 30% tax on dividends","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349587558","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3964265,"gmtCreate":1617635565042,"gmtModify":1680782956237,"authorId":3566259831309087,"author":{"id":3566259831309087,"idStr":"3566259831309087","authorId":3566259831309087,"name":"Sumei","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ae0a2af1baf6b07a87ffdf41ea17959a","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349587558,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Yes, while dividends are great, share buybacks increase the value of each share. ","text":"Yes, while dividends are great, share buybacks increase the value of each share. ","html":"Yes, while dividends are great, share buybacks increase the value of each share. "}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349517341,"gmtCreate":1617625200683,"gmtModify":1704701000162,"author":{"id":"3573983104070220","authorId":"3573983104070220","name":"Raychris","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d6ba052a63ff93ee2d7ec595895d9b0e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3573983104070220","authorIdStr":"3573983104070220"},"htmlText":"This is good news&nbsp;","listText":"This is good news&nbsp;","text":"This is good news","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349517341","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349519143,"gmtCreate":1617624407382,"gmtModify":1704700989451,"author":{"id":"3577684031491942","authorId":"3577684031491942","name":"Derpinerp","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1d16b810005af4f05421db32999e4556","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577684031491942","authorIdStr":"3577684031491942"},"htmlText":"How does tiger transfer dividends?&nbsp;","listText":"How does tiger transfer dividends?&nbsp;","text":"How does tiger transfer dividends?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":4,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349519143","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3964437,"gmtCreate":1617636674995,"gmtModify":1680782962903,"authorId":3577684031491942,"author":{"id":3577684031491942,"idStr":"3577684031491942","authorId":3577684031491942,"name":"Derpinerp","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1d16b810005af4f05421db32999e4556","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":3576275613425159,"repliedAuthor":{"id":3576275613425159,"idStr":"3576275613425159","authorId":3576275613425159,"name":"Lynny","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7c0b8b78e97626dedf9ed61da1957ab7","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"objectId":349519143,"type":1,"supId":3962772,"prevId":3964091,"content":"I see thank you!!","text":"I see thank you!!","html":"I see thank you!!"},{"id":3964091,"gmtCreate":1617634379381,"gmtModify":1680782961999,"authorId":3576275613425159,"author":{"id":3576275613425159,"idStr":"3576275613425159","authorId":3576275613425159,"name":"Lynny","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7c0b8b78e97626dedf9ed61da1957ab7","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":3577684031491942,"repliedAuthor":{"id":3577684031491942,"idStr":"3577684031491942","authorId":3577684031491942,"name":"Derpinerp","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1d16b810005af4f05421db32999e4556","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"objectId":349519143,"type":1,"supId":3962772,"prevId":3963425,"content":"Yes i believe so","text":"Yes i believe so","html":"Yes i believe so"},{"id":3963425,"gmtCreate":1617630489703,"gmtModify":1680782947356,"authorId":3577684031491942,"author":{"id":3577684031491942,"idStr":"3577684031491942","authorId":3577684031491942,"name":"Derpinerp","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1d16b810005af4f05421db32999e4556","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349519143,"type":1,"supId":3962772,"prevId":0,"content":"so the 30% dividend tax for US <u>stocks</u> will be deducted prior?","text":"so the 30% dividend tax for US <u>stocks</u> will be deducted prior?","html":"so the 30% dividend tax for US <u>stocks</u> will be deducted prior?"},{"id":3962772,"gmtCreate":1617625999117,"gmtModify":1680782946789,"authorId":3576275613425159,"author":{"id":3576275613425159,"idStr":"3576275613425159","authorId":3576275613425159,"name":"Lynny","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7c0b8b78e97626dedf9ed61da1957ab7","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349519143,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"It goes into your cash account and it’s labelled as dividend","text":"It goes into your cash account and it’s labelled as dividend","html":"It goes into your cash account and it’s labelled as dividend"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349533352,"gmtCreate":1617623458176,"gmtModify":1704700978865,"author":{"id":"3576147606699436","authorId":"3576147606699436","name":"DenDenBear","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/01e983ba302bc271159224fa4bb390e6","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576147606699436","authorIdStr":"3576147606699436"},"htmlText":"Reply and like thanks","listText":"Reply and like thanks","text":"Reply and like thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349533352","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349592732,"gmtCreate":1617623061026,"gmtModify":1704700968632,"author":{"id":"3578551652615706","authorId":"3578551652615706","name":"michelle33","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f75254c6d9bb78ab4b0e2defbde5f9f3","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3578551652615706","authorIdStr":"3578551652615706"},"htmlText":"[微笑]&nbsp;[微笑]&nbsp;[微笑]&nbsp;","listText":"[微笑]&nbsp;[微笑]&nbsp;[微笑]&nbsp;","text":"[微笑] [微笑] [微笑]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349592732","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":349505551,"gmtCreate":1617621908973,"gmtModify":1704700955909,"author":{"id":"3561975721283567","authorId":"3561975721283567","name":"WTurtle","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f365603f5d6014baec364bc1bdd93afd","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3561975721283567","authorIdStr":"3561975721283567"},"htmlText":"Great","listText":"Great","text":"Great","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349505551","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349506319,"gmtCreate":1617621561331,"gmtModify":1704700952797,"author":{"id":"3580027277441703","authorId":"3580027277441703","name":"w3tan","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/924932717f7ac0e1c7cb8594ab4c810f","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580027277441703","authorIdStr":"3580027277441703"},"htmlText":"Looking to enter if price drop","listText":"Looking to enter if price drop","text":"Looking to enter if price drop","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349506319","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3962431,"gmtCreate":1617622630195,"gmtModify":1680782936221,"authorId":3575234021908444,"author":{"id":3575234021908444,"idStr":"3575234021908444","authorId":3575234021908444,"name":"Gabriel林倡銘","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/5f79fe34fb45208de204a36457e2a3d7","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"7a9f168ff73447fe856ed6c938b61789-1","templateUuid":"7a9f168ff73447fe856ed6c938b61789","name":"Knowledgeable Investor","description":"Traded more than 10 stocks","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e74cc24115c4fbae6154ec1b1041bf47","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d48265cbfd97c57f9048db29f22227b0","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76c6d6898b073c77e1c537ebe9ac1c57","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2021.12.21","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1102},"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349506319,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Same here","text":"Same here","html":"Same here"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349508453,"gmtCreate":1617621524772,"gmtModify":1704700951983,"author":{"id":"3576325295778787","authorId":"3576325295778787","name":"HOTBE","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4f535d0d25c5b9833a0f75cd652fbbcd","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576325295778787","authorIdStr":"3576325295778787"},"htmlText":"Good news, waiting!","listText":"Good news, waiting!","text":"Good news, waiting!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349508453","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349509903,"gmtCreate":1617621136802,"gmtModify":1704700946826,"author":{"id":"3575102877976288","authorId":"3575102877976288","name":"Chaishen","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b8bb167c6f990b4a02d66313039eb021","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7b75ce0c34afff716602792a5d0929dd","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3575102877976288","authorIdStr":"3575102877976288"},"htmlText":"Share buy back is a good move","listText":"Share buy back is a good move","text":"Share buy back is a good move","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349509903","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349277277,"gmtCreate":1617620956499,"gmtModify":1704700944878,"author":{"id":"3547445468418432","authorId":"3547445468418432","name":"DarrenChong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/084835973088ef110b1431b2ca25a13e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3547445468418432","authorIdStr":"3547445468418432"},"htmlText":"nice","listText":"nice","text":"nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349277277","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3978807,"gmtCreate":1617795890528,"gmtModify":1680783182060,"authorId":3550145701881142,"author":{"id":3550145701881142,"idStr":"3550145701881142","authorId":3550145701881142,"name":"Skylar217","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349277277,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"},{"id":3962250,"gmtCreate":1617620977786,"gmtModify":1680782932586,"authorId":3547445468418432,"author":{"id":3547445468418432,"idStr":"3547445468418432","authorId":3547445468418432,"name":"DarrenChong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/084835973088ef110b1431b2ca25a13e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349277277,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>yes</u>","text":"<u>yes</u>","html":"<u>yes</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349275155,"gmtCreate":1617620779877,"gmtModify":1704700941933,"author":{"id":"3551139414186896","authorId":"3551139414186896","name":"Slowdownpok","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3551139414186896","authorIdStr":"3551139414186896"},"htmlText":"Apple is dividend stock now?","listText":"Apple is dividend stock now?","text":"Apple is dividend stock now?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349275155","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349271147,"gmtCreate":1617620487289,"gmtModify":1704700935905,"author":{"id":"3556586054061314","authorId":"3556586054061314","name":"bluedolphin","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3556586054061314","authorIdStr":"3556586054061314"},"htmlText":"Comment and like please. Thanks&nbsp;","listText":"Comment and like please. Thanks&nbsp;","text":"Comment and like please. Thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349271147","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3965420,"gmtCreate":1617661226120,"gmtModify":1680782981526,"authorId":3573341177962944,"author":{"id":3573341177962944,"idStr":"3573341177962944","authorId":3573341177962944,"name":"buckethead","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fb0baba9e10b75fa4dc0ff143e54bbea","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349271147,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"ok done","text":"ok done","html":"ok done"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349273651,"gmtCreate":1617620403673,"gmtModify":1704700934603,"author":{"id":"3576533774112300","authorId":"3576533774112300","name":"BellaEng","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dde1682b37a7cdb8f3de06cedadd8083","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576533774112300","authorIdStr":"3576533774112300"},"htmlText":"More please","listText":"More please","text":"More please","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349273651","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3962205,"gmtCreate":1617620637800,"gmtModify":1680782930020,"authorId":3571822130411286,"author":{"id":3571822130411286,"idStr":"3571822130411286","authorId":3571822130411286,"name":"Jweikit","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b483f2ee96e5c438b841f3c0a8e4ccdf","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349273651,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Nive ","text":"Nive ","html":"Nive "},{"id":3962183,"gmtCreate":1617620441546,"gmtModify":1680782926589,"authorId":3576533774112300,"author":{"id":3576533774112300,"idStr":"3576533774112300","authorId":3576533774112300,"name":"BellaEng","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dde1682b37a7cdb8f3de06cedadd8083","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349273651,"type":1,"supId":3962182,"prevId":0,"content":"?","text":"?","html":"?"},{"id":3962182,"gmtCreate":1617620420657,"gmtModify":1680782925467,"authorId":3573471135601329,"author":{"id":3573471135601329,"idStr":"3573471135601329","authorId":3573471135601329,"name":"SKHan","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/edb016a1e76d427cf4bc5ef3a5d38289","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349273651,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Yes","text":"Yes","html":"Yes"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349244185,"gmtCreate":1617619969347,"gmtModify":1704700928684,"author":{"id":"3573818563583937","authorId":"3573818563583937","name":"Starbucks","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/adf9c30b19f3cc477ca4f1198d2c8b81","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b073a07f77dbe6b3bec6b12311fde6bd","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3573818563583937","authorIdStr":"3573818563583937"},"htmlText":"Wow! Looking forward! [財迷]&nbsp;[財迷]&nbsp;","listText":"Wow! Looking forward! [財迷]&nbsp;[財迷]&nbsp;","text":"Wow! Looking forward! [財迷] [財迷]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349244185","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3962363,"gmtCreate":1617621934487,"gmtModify":1680782934049,"authorId":3573809317992460,"author":{"id":3573809317992460,"idStr":"3573809317992460","authorId":3573809317992460,"name":"Nobi","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f6f79f8404d0e36885a520438a78cd94","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349244185,"type":1,"supId":3962154,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>wow</u>","text":"<u>wow</u>","html":"<u>wow</u>"},{"id":3962154,"gmtCreate":1617620227564,"gmtModify":1680782926436,"authorId":3575107980285854,"author":{"id":3575107980285854,"idStr":"3575107980285854","authorId":3575107980285854,"name":"Ski58","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/af0171db501c11338ce9414623621549","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":349244185,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"[得意]","text":"[得意]","html":"[得意]"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":349245406,"gmtCreate":1617619903905,"gmtModify":1704700928035,"author":{"id":"3494281781797251","authorId":"3494281781797251","name":"Clumsypig","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0b15f83d2e489f283f51b78126066b4e","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d30fc324d24ff33075e053005564f0df","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3494281781797251","authorIdStr":"3494281781797251"},"htmlText":"回購比調股息好，收益更高","listText":"回購比調股息好，收益更高","text":"回購比調股息好，收益更高","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349245406","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":349242774,"gmtCreate":1617619825798,"gmtModify":1704700927387,"author":{"id":"3577494129956329","authorId":"3577494129956329","name":"GTJW18","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bdc73e3995547244b0590dcc69b966ef","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577494129956329","authorIdStr":"3577494129956329"},"htmlText":"Nice!!","listText":"Nice!!","text":"Nice!!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349242774","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":349246990,"gmtCreate":1617619638910,"gmtModify":1704700924635,"author":{"id":"3574645431522720","authorId":"3574645431522720","name":"Ericalow","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/db141bff5ed3ddf8d19d12ae14a7d269","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574645431522720","authorIdStr":"3574645431522720"},"htmlText":"Yass&nbsp;","listText":"Yass&nbsp;","text":"Yass","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/349246990","repostId":1173275548,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1173275548","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1617615622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1173275548?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-05 17:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple: Dividend Raise Coming Soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1173275548","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Fiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.</li>\n <li>Investors expecting annual dividend raise.</li>\n <li>I don't see a major increase coming.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d9ba3363d21d7c633614467e3bedecc8\" tg-width=\"479\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>Photo by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Last month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue&nbsp;buying back large amounts of stock&nbsp;for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.</p>\n<p>Before we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6b80a793019b3f5fe9cc3385c9ffa6\" tg-width=\"552\" tg-height=\"364\"><span>Source: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history</span></p>\n<p>Last year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.</p>\n<p>Even though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in&nbsp;free cash flow per year&nbsp;in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Apple's&nbsp;most recent 10-K filing&nbsp;showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/178d245e01664f2cf39e1fb7c7a66630\" tg-width=\"577\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>Source: Apple quarterly filings</span></p>\n<p>When the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.</p>\n<p>Because management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c55af82186e22d15e0d0d1d0eec96567\" tg-width=\"516\" tg-height=\"321\"><span>*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.</span></p>\n<p>This would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&amp;P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.</p>\n<p>In the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon</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: Dividend Raise Coming Soon\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-05 17:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4417546-apple-dividend-raise-coming-soon","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1173275548","content_text":"Summary\n\nFiscal Q2 report is scheduled for April 28th.\nInvestors expecting annual dividend raise.\nI don't see a major increase coming.\n\nPhoto by ONYXprj/iStock via Getty Images\nLast month, I discussed how technology giant Apple (AAPL) would likely continue buying back large amounts of stock for quite some time. With the company producing tremendous free cash flow, it has rewarded investors with over half a trillion dollars in capital returns over the past decade. Today, I'm here to discuss the second half of the equation, which is the potential dividend raise that many are looking for later this month.\nBefore we start looking forward, let's take a quick look back. Apple restarted its dividend program back in 2012, at which point it was paying out $2.65 a quarter. Since then, there have been two stock splits, so that figure adjusts out to less than 9.5 cents today. In the chart below, you can see what the last five dividend raises have resulted in. Apple originally raised the dividend in 2020 to $0.82 per share, but after the 4 for 1 stock split later in the year, that number came down to the current payout of $0.205 per quarter.\nSource: Seeking Alpha Apple dividend history\nLast year, the company raised its dividend by a nickel per share, or a cent and a quarter split adjusted. That worked out to a 6.49% raise, which was the second straight year where the percentage increase was in the mid single digits. Over the past five years, the compounded raise amount has been a little more than 9.5% per year. I know some investors have been disappointed by that given Apple's tremendous cash flow, but management has preferred the buyback over time.\nEven though Apple has returned over half a trillion in capital to investors over the years, it still had a net cash balance of $84 billion at the end of the December fiscal quarter. The company has averaged over $65 billion in free cash flow per year in its last three years. With a huge projected surge in net income during the current fiscal year, ending this September, Apple could end up generating more than $80 billion in free cash flow for the 12 month period.\nInterestingly enough, Apple's most recent 10-K filing showed the company paid out less in dividend and equivalents in fiscal 2020 than it did in fiscal 2019. Still, a more than $14 billion yearly payout is nothing to shrug off. That was mostly a function of the tremendous share buyback plan, which has continued to bring the outstanding share count down nicely as seen below.\nSource: Apple quarterly filings\nWhen the 10-Q filing came out in January, the share count was down 4.08% over the past 12 months, give or take a few days. That's a nice decline for any company in just one year, although it did trail the past two years for Apple. This was because of the tremendous surge in shares, so even though there was more spent on the buyback, the money just didn't go as far. Remember, this stock a year ago was trading at about half of where it is currently.\nBecause management has been so focused on the buyback, I've never been one thinking we'll see large dividend raises, even with the present cash flow picture. As a result, I see another nice but not spectacular raise coming soon, and in the table below I've detailed what such an increase could look like. My personal prediction range is in yellow, with my base assumption being a 7.32% increase to $0.22 per quarter.\n*As of close on 4/1 of $123.00 per share.\nThis would be a bit more than we saw with last year's raise, although it still means that Apple is not a very high-yielding name. As of last week's close, the name was in the bottom 50 in terms of annual yield for S&P 500 companies. Of course, many investors will point out that the dividend is not the main reason for buying this stock. Right now, this annual dividend will get you about the same amount of yearly yield as the average between the 3-Year and 5-Year US Treasury notes.\nIn the end, we should be just a few weeks away from a dividend raise from Apple. With tremendous free cash flow allowing the share count to come down nicely over time, the dividend has more than doubled since the program was restarted. While the name may not have the yield that some are hoping for, it's a part of the greatest capital return plan we've ever seen. Every little bit of income helps, and I do think we'll see another mid-to-high single digits percentage increase this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":88,"commentSize":46,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}