{"id":16928,"date":"2017-06-08T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T09:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=16928"},"modified":"2017-06-08T11:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T09:19:37","slug":"16928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/16928\/","title":{"rendered":"If Apple Went On A Shopping Spree&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s most recent\u00a0earnings report shows that the company\u2019s gigantic cash pile has grown past the quarter trillion dollar mark in the first three months of 2017. To be more precise, Apple had $256.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities by the end of the quarter, of which $239 billion was held outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate how much money that is, here&#8217;s a hypothetical shopping list of companies that Apple could buy with all the money:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16927\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chartoftheday_9222_apple_cash_reserve_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chartoftheday_9222_apple_cash_reserve_n.jpg 960w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chartoftheday_9222_apple_cash_reserve_n-300x214.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chartoftheday_9222_apple_cash_reserve_n-768x547.jpg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chartoftheday_9222_apple_cash_reserve_n-269x192.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s most recent\u00a0earnings report shows that the company\u2019s gigantic cash pile has grown past the quarter trillion dollar mark in the first three months of 2017. To be more precise, Apple had $256.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities by the end of the quarter, of which $239 billion was held outside the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/16928\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2126,166,2010,718,777,2127],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8415-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}