In the last three months of this year Apple he cashed almost 30 billion dollars from the sales generated by its products, an extremely high figure if we compare it with that recorded by other companies around the world. With the profit of almost 7 billion dollars in the last 3 months, Apple's cash reserves they touched the record figure of 81 billion dollars and we are talking about liquidity and money invested by the company. The monetary reserve of the Apple company is greater than the gross domestic product of some EU countries, but for now the company from Cupertino keeps the money in banks, does not make important purchases and none offers dividends to its shareholders.
The most interesting part is that two thirds of this money, i.e. 54 billion dollars, are "blocked" in banks outside the US and Apple is in no hurry to "repatriate" them because of the very high taxes imposed by the American government. Although Steve Jobs was against offering dividends to shareholders, Tim Cook seems to be on the same wavelength and for now the 81 billion dollars are kept for future "strategic moves" of the Cupertino company. By "strategic moves" is meant the construction of the data center in North Carolina that supports the iCloud infrastructure, investments in partner factories that produce certain components at lower prices, etc.
2 years ago Apple had 31 billion dollars in funds from all over the world and we notice that during this period the company almost tripled its liquidity thanks to the launched products. Probably by 2013, Apple will collect 100 billion dollars in banks around the world and it remains to be seen what it will do with them.
