{"id":647350,"date":"2013-03-18T15:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=383083"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:57:45","slug":"apple-expected-to-double-dividend-to-16-billion-among-highest-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647350","title":{"rendered":"Apple expected to double dividend to $16 billion, among highest in U.S. history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/apple-quarterly-dividend-stock-383083\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"478\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/apple-sign110810213331.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=478&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Quarterly Dividend\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) shares are down more than 35% over the past six months, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> may be set to provide investors with one of the highest dividend yields in U.S. technology company history. According to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>, analysts polled by the news organization expect Apple to increase its dividend by 56% to $4.14 per share, higher than 86% of S&amp;P 500 companies that currently pay dividends. This would raise Apple&#8217;s annual payout to nearly $16 billion.\u00a0&#8220;The accumulation of cash has become excessive,&#8221; Topeka Capital Markets analyst\u00a0Brian White <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-03-18\/apple-seen-raising-dividend-more-than-50-to-16-billion.html\">told <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;It doesn\u2019t matter which bearish scenario you forecast, they\u2019re never going to need this much cash.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/LbCwmEv1P0Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (AAPL) shares are down more than 35% over the past six months, but Apple may be set to provide investors with one of the highest dividend yields in U.S. technology company history. According to Bloomberg, analysts polled by the news organization expect Apple to increase its dividend by 56% to $4.14 per share, higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}