Apple's Huge Buyback Could Attract Imitators
by Bret Jensen
There has been a lot written about Apple's (AAPL) announcement earlier this week that it was increasing its dividend by 15% and adding a whopping $50B to its stock repurchase program to bring the total to an astounding $60B. A lot of commentators have chimed in disapprovingly that the move shows the company is losing its innovative product design ways and would have been better off spending the money on R&D to develop new products. A couple of points I would like to bring up for the detractors of this move. First, Apple increased its R&D spending 33% Y/Y in the quarter. Second, it still has over $90B left in the till even after these capital allocation decisions. This should be more than enough to fund any interesting new products or acquisitions should opportunities present themselves. Finally, innovation is a creative process. One does not necessarily get better results by throwing a lot of bodies on something that requires vision. As my late father was fond of saying: "You can assign nine women to produce a baby, it still is going to take nine months before you see the first results." read more »
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