While Apple during the Steve Jobs era wasn't too keen on doling out dividends, Tim Cook has taken steps to return boatloads of money back to shareholders. This past April, Apple more than doubled its capital return program when it increased its quarterly dividend of $2.65 by 15% and authorized the repurchase of $60 billion worth of outstanding shares.
As it stands today, Apple's current quarterly dividend is $3.05. By way of contrast, Microsoft's quarterly dividend checks in at $0.28. Financially speaking, Apple is unquestionably sitting pretty.
To provide a bit of a historical context to Apple's quarterly dividend, I thought it'd be helpful to look back to a time when Apple previously issued dividends; from 1987-1995. Thankfully, Apple has all the requisite data charted out for us
