In light of Apple’s [AAPL] fantastic reported performance in the last quarter, a lot of financial analysts have grumbled about the huge warchest that Steve & Co. are sitting on and why it hasn’t been been used to buttress the stock value against the hordes of crazed speculators and economic downturn volatility.
Here’s an example: Jim Goldman (CNBC) posted earlier today about this very subject, even mentioning an earlier post he wrote last March on the same topic. At this point, it could even be argued that a mass stock buyback now would be even more efficacious than last March.
But you know: if Apple does buy back enough stocks, it may fire a bunch of triggers that speculators may have set to start dumping.
Go figure.
So the big question is: how to reward the loyal shareholders while keeping da goodz away from the meany-mealy speculators?
