One of the taboo topics from the time when Steve Jobs was CEO of Apple is offering dividends to the company's investors. Steve Jobs did not agree with this and helped Apple collect no less than 80 billion dollars in cash and various investments from around the world, money that is now used for strategic investments. For now, everything boils down to a rumor, but those from Bloomberg I argue that Apple could offer dividends to its own investors starting with the first half of 2012, something completely unexpected considering the possible indications left by Steve Jobs before he died.
"We're going to see a dividend announced for Apple at some point in the first half of 2012," Ward, a money manager who helps oversee about $36.1 billion for Gamco Investors Inc., said in an interview today with "Street Smart" on Bloomberg Television. "That could easily be a 3 percent dividend-yielding stock or even higher."
Tim Cook has repeatedly shown that the idea of offering dividends could be applied in the near future and I am sure that the company's investors are waiting with great interest for an official announcement from the company's management.
