[akuma73]

As a shareholder, they should raise the dividend. If you can't find opportunity to invest the money, it should be returned to the shareholders. I'm all for keeping cash around for a rainy day or for future opportunities but not 33% of your market cap. That is an absurd misallocation of capital.

[valuearb]

I expect if a bill passes significantly lowering the tax rate on repatriated profits that Apple will pay a large one time dividend to shareholders.

But until then those profits are trapped overseas. Apple can borrow against them to pay dividends, but that only goes so far.

[dharma1]

Or share buybacks, which I imagine management will push for

[srtjstjsj]

If investors agreed with you, the stock price would drop and it would increase to even more than 33% of market cap