Dividend

No Apple dividend today

CEO Tim Cook reiterated his previous position: We're looking at it carefully

As expected, the issue of what Apple (AAPL) plans to do with its roughly $100 billion in cash came up at the company's annual shareholder meeting Thursday.

It was the first question from the floor, and CEO Tim Cook had an opportunity to make an announcement, if he were so inclined.

He was not.

According to reports from inside the meeting, he MORE

Apple shareholders: The odds are against a dividend today

The company is likely to hold on to its $100 billion cash hoard -- at least for now

I suspect that the number one question on the mind of Apple (AAPL) shareholders gathering today at 1 Infinite Loop for the company's annual meeting is what Tim Cook plans to do with Apple's roughly $100 billion in cash and marketable securities.

"I think it's clear to everyone, and I'd be the first to admit, MORE

Morgan Stanley: Apple could pay a 1.9% to 3.8% dividend from domestic free cash flow alone

Likely to exceed the tech sector's average 1.2% dividend, driving share price up $100

The institutions that hold 70% of Apple's (AAPL) shares lobbied Steve Jobs for years to put some of his company's rapidly growing cash hoard in their hands.

Now that his successor is talking openly about the company's discussions to do just that, the sell-side analysts have started to calculate how big their share might be.

The latest to weigh in MORE

Is there anybody left to buy AAPL?

An analyst asks whether it can keep outperforming the market without paying a dividend

Toni Sacconaghi just won't give up.

For more than two years, Bernstein Research's top Apple (AAPL) analyst been after Steve Jobs to spend some of the company's growing cash hoard ($51 billion as of September), preferably on a stock buyback or cash dividend.

"Shareholder frustration," he wrote in an open letter to the board of directors in August, "is MORE