Apple Does the Smaug Thing

Lots of chatter this morning about the increasing size of the Apple (AAPL) cash hoard, at least as measured by cash and marketable securities. Here is a graph of Apple’s Smaug-esque hoard’s growth over the last six years (via Gridstone):

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