or all the mutual funds stop buying @ market price.. Almost every small and midcap mutual fund now owns AAPL. Everyone will be holding the bag at some point unless you take profits sooner then later. Dividend payments will crush the market cap. AS AAPL’s market cap declines, so does the allocation in cap-weighted indexes. Regardless whether that decline is driven by a change in investor sentiment towards the company or a special distribution of cash. Apple would be worth less if it were to suddenly shed tens of billions in market cap, so it would be reflected in index weightings. A dividend could result in ETF investors owning significantly less AAPL in their portfolios than they do now, effectively transferring that value to cash and the weightings within ETFs to other securities.
talks of a 50$ dividend will payout 70 billion of their 100 billion in cash.