Tech giant Apple last year take advantage of Republican tax slice to declare it was bring home ahoard of $ 252 billionit had stashed overseas at a scrimpy 15.5 pct taxation rate ( $ 100 billion of which it after said wouldgo to stock buybacks ) . As of Tuesday , when the fellowship announced itsfirst - quarter profits , filings show it has about$245 billionin immediate payment on paw , up from $ 237.1 billion the late quarter .
$ 245 billion is a lot of money — the kind of sum that usually only comes up when hash out federal regime syllabus , a fistful of thebiggest corporate fusion in history , or Jeff Bezos ’s net worth in a few years . Imagining that Apple make up one’s mind to move all of it right now ( ignoring whether or not that is potential as well as the company’sconsiderable debt ) , here ’s some of the clobber it could throw down for . *
Approximately72 duck’s egg - sized Howard Schultzes(at $ 3.4 billion a pappa , assume the duck - sized random variable is of equal economic value to the human - sized Howard Schultz ) or one Howard Schultz - sized duck’s egg ( theoretically could direct to the cure for cancer or death or whatever )
34.17 percentof the $ 717 billion 2019 defense budget , which seems like enough for an enterprising coup d’etat leader to give the remaining 65.83 percent a honorable go of it
allot to Forbes ’ 2018NFL dealership valuation , every single NFL squad ( $ 82 billion ) nearly three times . ( But do you really need three Buffalo Bills ? No one ’s gon na remark . instead , Apple could just buy the Steelers 95 times )
CEO Tim Cook could kick back some money upstairs tohis friend in the White Houseby staying at the Trump International Hotel DC ’s Trump Townhouse at areported rate of $ 20,000 an eveningroughly 12,250,000 days in a row , or until the yr 35,580 advert
At the wholesale terms of$781 per pound , 313,700,384 pounds of state - legal Colorado weed ( 156,850 U.S. tons , or about the weight of two and two - thirds RMS Titanics at the original vessel ’s translation of 52,310 long tons/58,587 U.S. wads . That ’s veracious . Apple can open about three Titanics ’ system of weights in legal dope )
According to Credit Suisse , Bangladesh ( net worth $ 240 billion in 2018 )
cease world thirstiness from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 ( going by theUN count on in 2015of $ 267 billion per year )
Spitballing the cost of returning to the moon ataround $ 57 billion , Apple could transport a guy rope to the moon , wreak him back , institutionalise a guy to the moon , bring him back , send a guy to the moon , take him back , send a cat to the moon , bring him back , and then send the guy back to the moon and leave him there to exit ( 4.3 missions )
5,061 1962 Ferrari 250 GTOs at a2018 auction cost of $ 48,405,000(only 36 were ever made but whatever )
Hiring me for , say , $ 80,000 per year plus $ 24,000 in benefit , for the next 273,623 years ( not counting inflation and continuing to ante up me post mortem )
At a current net riches estimated at$131.9 billion , around 1.86 Jeff Bezoses
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