Apple

[Grieve]

I doubt they will though. Tim Cook seems to want to sit on 100 billion. Its like Penis envy.

Honestly, They should go out and buy something.

Making a huge acquisition just because you have the money to do so is pretty much the worst idea ever.

Let's think about this...Time Warner and AOL...HP and Compaq...News Corp and MySpace...Ebay and Skype...and worst of all, Google and Motorola. $12.5 billion, mainly for the patent portfolio, and they haven't yet won a single patent ruling. And the hardware business continues to hemorrhage money and drag down Google's results. Moto X is already looking like another failure (mid-range specs at a premium price).

Apple actually makes a ton of acquisitions (7-10 a year), but almost all very small. The only one I think might have been a good buy for them while it was cheaper was Twitter, but that's a big assumption that Twitter was open to be being bought. But I think in general, big acquisitions make you lose focus as you try to force two different cultures to mesh. Unless you are already a big conglomerate. There's also the fact that most of their money is overseas.

Anyway, they are already returning $100m to shareholders in dividends and buybacks. And if Icahn has his way, it will be a lot more.

In my "play accounts" right now I only own 2 things. TZA and Apple.

Which is pretty ironic considering you rival Jake and Slamz in your relentless Apple bashing...