$10.60 a share
The repurchase of shares has slightly reduced the total dividend Apple pays. While the company reports $2.8 billion in dividend payments for FQ1, at $0.47 per share the 5.825 billion shares outstanding would appear to total $2.73 billion, a $70 million reduction over the previous quarter's dividends. Never miss an update Follow AppleInsider. Follow @AppleInsider. On February 12, Apple will pay shareholders of record a quarterly dividend of $0.47 per share, but investors will need to buy shares by February 5th (to have settled ownership of the company's stock by the market's close on February 9) in order to qualify. Apple dividend: a forecast. If Apple increased its dividend by 8% annually during the next five years, its annual dividend would amount to $2.76 per share after an April increase in 2019. On a cost basis of $113 per Apple share today, that's a 2.4% dividend yield in five years. With current annual levels of free cash flow of about $50 billion, and annual dividend expenses only around $11.1 billion, Apple has tons of room to increase its dividend in the future. Apple should pan out to be an excellent dividend stock during the next 10 years. Apple is currently paying 47 cents a share as a dividend. A doubling would bring that to 94 cents a share. RBC says the company will likely generate $66.6 billion in free cash flow in fiscal 2015, making a $65 billion capital return program very affordable. Apple currently yields 1.5%, a curiously low dividend that falls short of the roughly 1.9% yield on the Standard & Poor’s 500. That’s a shockingly low dividend for a company that could afford to give every American $556 thanks to its enormous pile of roughly $178 billion in cash and investments. Apple has been automatically paying its shareholders a dividend about a month and a half after the end of each fiscal quarter. At the current stock price of $514, the dividend yield is 2.37 percent. Follow @AppleInsider. Next Thursday, Apple will pay shareholders of record the company's quarterly dividend of $3.05 per share, but investors needed to own the company's stock by the market's close today in order to qualify. Apple dividend: a forecastIf Apple increased its dividend by 8% annually during the next five years, its annual dividend would amount to $2.76 per share after an April increase in 2019. On a cost basis of $113 per Apple share today, that's a 2.4% dividend yield in five years. With current annual levels of free cash flow of about $50 billion, and annual dividend expenses only around $11.1 billion, Apple has tons of room to increase its dividend in the future. Apple should pan out to be an excellent dividend stock during the next 10 years. “It was high time to do this,” said David Rolfe, chief investment officer of Wedgewood Partners Inc., which holds Apple shares. The dividend will cost Apple about $10 billion a year and represents a yield of 1.8 percent on the stock’s closing price today. The company generated $16 billion in cash in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, which ended in December. Some investors will only buy shares in companies that pay a dividend. Apple last paid a dividend in 1995, before Jobs returned as CEO and led the introduction of top-selling products including the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Sponsored Links. Apple will start paying shareholders a $9.9 billion annual dividend, which is equivalent to $10.60 a share or a roughly 1.8% yield with Apple shares trading at more than $600. This dividend, the largest initial one ever by a U.S. company, comes on top of large stock price gains enjoyed by investors.  Cook said he hopes the dividend will open up Apple's stock to a new investor base. Apple's dividend yield -- the percentage of a company's share price that it pays out in annual dividends -- is currently 1.8%. In 2014, Apple raised the dividend 8 percent, but shares had gone up more, so even with the increase, the yield only got to 2.5 percent. The continued rally in Apple stock has pulled the yield on that dividend down to 1.5. Kessler thinks Apple will raise the dividend by as much as 8 percent, to 15 percent. If Kessler is right, and at its current stock price around $125, the yield would go to between 1.6 percent and 1.7 percent. For Apple to pay out 2 percent of its $725 billion market value would cost about $14.5 billion a year, or less than a quarter of its operating cash flow last fiscal year, but $3.4 billion more than it spent on dividends in fiscal 2014. Matching Intel's payout would cost about $24 billion.
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