03-01-2012, 06:17 PM
Jimmypoo wrote: ...The "investors" they are supposed to be appeasing are the 70% institution held shares...If you've held 1000 shares of Apple for the past 15 years, you'd now have 4000 shares, and your lowest point investment would have gone from avg of $10 to 535. Would you rather have gained $2,000,000+ in liquidity? Or $60,000 in dividends + whatever the stock has done?...There probably ought to be a regulation on the percentage permitted for institutions to hold the stock. You can see that when calls for Apple to buy back stock with the cash are made -- who is that going to serve?
+100
Yet another masterful post, jimmypoo--you're on a roll.