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**Pjayjukr** · 04-27-2012, 12:23 AM

Go price up a high end Sony, Dell or IBM against a MacBook Pro.

People always see $400 laptops and compare them with MacBook's. It's apples and oranges.

I think you meant Apples and lemons...

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No they can't. That's actually part of the problem.

Apple has a hundred billion dollars in the bank

Nope. They have about $10bn in cash. The rest is about $20bn in short term liquid equities, about $10bn in net receivables and vendor trade receivables (meaning money they paid to vendors in advance), about $80bn in long term marketable securities of which about 60% is non-US, almost $10bn in in property value, and another $10bn in intangible assets (including $1bn in inventory). Then there is about $10bn in deferred taxes and goodwill.

So the 'cash in the bank' figure of $150bn is actually $10bn... and for a company worth north of $600bn, it's a relatively small percentage.

04-27-2012, 12:23 AM	#28
Pjayjukr Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 502 Senior Member	Go price up a high end Sony, Dell or IBM against a MacBook Pro. People always see $400 laptops and compare them with MacBook's. It's apples and oranges. I think you meant Apples and lemons... --- Post Update --- No they can't. That's actually part of the problem. Apple has a hundred billion dollars in the bank Nope. They have about $10bn in cash. The rest is about $20bn in short term liquid equities, about $10bn in net receivables and vendor trade receivables (meaning money they paid to vendors in advance), about $80bn in long term marketable securities of which about 60% is non-US, almost $10bn in in property value, and another $10bn in intangible assets (including $1bn in inventory). Then there is about $10bn in deferred taxes and goodwill. So the 'cash in the bank' figure of $150bn is actually $10bn... and for a company worth north of $600bn, it's a relatively small percentage.
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