A typical iPhone owner in the USA and Russia. Who Really Owns Apple's Money?

Yes, you guessed it right - we are talking about British scientists. Psychologists from the Universities of Lincoln and Lancaster recently published the full results of their study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking.

Over the course of two years (2015-2016), they talked to 530 people and asked each study participant a lot of questions. The questions related to personal characteristics, behavior patterns, and preferences in choosing mobile phone. And, as it turns out, the choice of Android/iOS can really say something about a person.

“I was concluded that iPhone owners are most likely young people. And there are more women among them. In addition, most of them are confident that the telephone is not just a means of communication, but a sign of status,” the scientists write.

It turns out that the owners of “Google Phones” are right in their claims and Apple for many is not so much smart choice, how much is “playing to the public”?

But that is not all! According to British scientists, iPhone owners are less honest and conscientious compared to those who chose Android. They are also much more selfish, emotional, uninhibited and prone to violating moral standards.

Scientists write about the owners of Google phones - they are older, more conscientious, and easier to negotiate with. conflict situation. They are less interested in the cost of the phone.

“Our phones are essentially our electronic copies, noted one of the researchers, Heather Shaw. - It’s not surprising that many people don’t like it when someone else picks up their phone. This device can say a lot about us.”

According to Ellis, the next interesting step will be to study people who switched from iPhone to Android and vice versa. What has changed so seriously in them? In addition, the scientist asks not to transfer the results of the study to every owner of an iPhone or Google Phone. Obviously, everyone is different. But based on some characteristics, the majority have common features.

What do you think about this opus of British psychologists? In my personal opinion, 530 people is not such a large sample. In addition, it is obvious that the iPhone is an expensive and high-status device. There are basically no cheap iPhones. Well, there are many different “androids”. It would be interesting to compare the statements of owners of Apple phones and top-end Samsung phones, for example. Well, perhaps scientists will do this too, what else can they do?

Corporations at $240, which is $91 above their current value. According to Icahn, Apple's capitalization should be about $1.3 trillion.

Let's leave the question of the fairness of this share price, and take it as a fact that Apple is the largest global company. The resource was set a simple question: who owns a company with a value equal to the budgets of several European countries combined?

It would seem that the main shareholder is a certain Carl Icahn - an eccentric billionaire, a cynical business shark, a famous raider and extortionist, a brawler and much more. In fact, it is he who is most often mentioned in the media as the main shareholder and newsmaker. There is also Tim Cook - CEO Apple, but he is a figure appointed by shareholders, that is, he is not the owner in any way.

However, after carefully studying the situation, we discover amazing fact– Billionaire Carl Icahn owns only 1% of Apple shares. Of course, the cost of even one percent is a huge amount, but it’s only one hundredth! Where is the rest? The question is not only hidden, but in the media it is not only hushed up, but also openly falsified.

Is it really difficult to look at open and completely official data from the register of shareholders? There is nothing simpler, and we can easily do it ourselves:

Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) – 5.68%
State Street Corporation – 4.11%
FMR, LLC – 3.07%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. – 2.72%
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation – 1.42%
Northern Trust Corporation – 1.39%
BlackRock Fund Advisors – 1.21%

Amazing. discovery, but Carl Icahn is not even among the top ten largest shareholders of Apple. Who are these mysterious real owners?

In first place is Vanguard Group. For the uninitiated reader, and for many economists, the name is unfamiliar, although in any reference book you can find information that the company controls assets worth 2 trillion dollars ($2000 billion). Three times the cost of the same Apple. These are such modest people. In fact, the amount of assets under their control is several times larger, but we will look at this later.

Before moving on to further analysis of Apple's shareholder structure, we should make a short digression.

The ideals of democracy and a media image that serves as a screen for the true owners do not sit well with the fact that all of the world's largest companies are owned by the same few people. How to hide this obvious contradiction? Everything is very simple - you need to create the appearance that there are supposedly many owners (shareholders) and they are all “different”.

Indeed, how can the “masters of the world” have a measly 5-6% of shares? Yes, any liberal will laugh in your face if you tell him this. The fact that these “measly six percent” are worth $40-50 billion does not bother anyone - with such a modest package it is already guaranteed to appoint its own CEO. For full control a company with a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars requires 20% - no more is needed, since it is impossible for competitors to collect more. And suddenly, some Chinese will buy a 7% stake and they will be able to run everything in the largest American company?

“This shouldn’t happen!” – the real masters of the world decided a long time ago and hedged their bets.

To understand how they exercised total control and maintained the appearance of the absence of one owner, we return to our list of Apple shareholders. In second place is State Street Corporation, owning 4.11%. And who are its largest shareholders?

Massachusetts Financial Services Co (Canadian Insurance Company– who owns confusingly)
Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc – 7%
Vanguard Group (where would we be without him!) – 6%
BlackRock (coming soon!) – 5%

Let's take an even deeper look at who is the shareholder of Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc. And we see the same acquaintances: Vanguard and BlackRock (remember this name, it is often found, going hand in hand with our main character). That is, in exactly the same manner the monster Vanguard controls the second main shareholder Apple. A simple trick and 10% of the apple shares are already in your pocket. But that's not all.

In the top ten there are two companies with a similar name BlackRock & BlaBla and the third time the name BlackRock is mentioned in State Street shareholders (by the way, Vanguard has such subsidiaries dozens - so that it is not a fact that we will be able to count all their possessions even approximately - even the largest ones). Naturally, among the owners of BlackRock we find all the same people.

We add another four percent and we already get 14% of all Apple shares held by one office - Vanguard! And again, that's not all. What else is left among the fake Apple owners?

FMR LLC (Fidelity Management and Research), Fidelity Investments, similarly, we will find exactly identical names among the shareholders: Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and so on. That is, Fidelity is again controlled by Vanguard Group!

Total: a “modest” 17% in the piggy bank.

A remarkable scheme of mutual ownership and cross-shareholding. And if any of the shareholders seems not to be directly connected with Vanguard, then its shareholders are definitely under their control, and even in the third iteration (level) the same will happen.

That is, Vanguard:

1. Officially, the main shareholder of Apple. For comparison, the one who publicly portrays Apple's largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, has only 1% of the shares, which is five times less than this stake alone.

2. Vanguard also has the largest stakes in almost all other companies that own large shares of Apple. But even that is not enough!

3. Vanguard not only owns the largest blocks of shares, but also controls the shareholders of the companies from point 2.

This is the picture that has emerged so far in the investigation. The largest companies in the world are banks Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Let's see who their largest shareholders are:

Bank of America: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon.
JP Morgan: State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.
Citigroup: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, and Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.
Wells Fargo: Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.

The largest financial companies are fully controlled by ten institutional and/or stock shareholders, from which a core of four companies can be identified that are present in all cases and in all decisions: Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street. They all “belong to each other,” but if you carefully balance out the shareholdings, you will find that Vanguard actually controls all of these partners or “competitors,” that is, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street.

Now let's look at the “tip of the iceberg”. That is, several selected as the largest companies in various industries controlled by these “Big Four”, and upon closer examination, simply the Vanguard corporation: Alcoa Inc. Altria Group Inc., American International Group Inc., AT&T Inc., Boeing, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, DuPont & Co., Exxon Mobil, General Electric Co., General Motors Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Home Depot Inc. , Honeywell International Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., McDonald, Merck & Co. Inc., Microsoft, 3M Co., Pfizer Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., United Technologies Corp., Verizon, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, CBS Corporation, NBC Universal.

If the stock price of a corporation, as the investor and major shareholder of the company insists, Apple(Carl Icahn), after the recent fall will soar from the current $130 to $216, security holders will become richer by more than half a trillion dollars. Who exactly would hypothetically get such a colossal pile of money?

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U Apple“nothing at all,” according to official figures, is a little more than $200 billion, and most of the funds from the entire $700 billion company actually belong to the owners of its shares. Among them are almost all the bosses of the apple corporation itself, many of the powerful and rich of this world, plus the same odious investor Mr. Icahn, who believes that these securities are greatly undervalued. Important point– before sales model range He doesn’t care about the iPhone, nor does he care about the facility in Cupertino itself—the financier talks directly about virtual wealth. After all, if each share increases in price, he will potentially earn a lot, a lot.

In fact, this is a drop in the bucket, because he is referred to in the media as “the largest holder of Apple securities” Carl Icahn, according to the shareholder register, owns only 1% of the shares. You don’t need to remember the shares of Federighi and others at all - a huge value for a person, but insignificant amounts on the scale of all corporations. But who then controls the really large blocks of Apple shares?

The answer can be found in the same document:

1. Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 5.68%;
2 . State Street Corporation 4.11%;
3. FMR, LLC 3.07%;
4. BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 2.72%;
5. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 1.42%;
6. Northern Trust Corporation 1.39%;
7. BlackRock Fund Advisors 1.21%

And then it’s worth turning to the calculations of researchers from the cont.ws portal, who decided to dig deeper. After all, behind each of the names on this list there is an extensive network of commercial structures, whose own shares are also traded on the stock exchange. And that means, in turn, they belong to someone - the strings stretch very bizarrely, but not at all chaotically.

On the contrary, State Street Corporation, second on the list, has a list of its own main shareholders: Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc (7%), Vanguard Group (6%) and BlackRock (5%). Moreover, according to the Yahoo! directory, Vanguard Group controls the main stake in Price (T. Rowe), and the second most important owner of the securities of this company is State Street Corporation. Yes, yes, the same corporation, whose 7% shares belong to Price (T. Rowe) - this is such mutual assistance.

The familiar name BlackRock refers to a legion of subsidiaries and funds, most of whose leading shareholders are the same Vanguard Group and State Street Corporation. As journalists calculated, in the case of Apple the first company concentrated at least 17% of all its shares through similar indirect methods. Actually, it’s not surprising, since it has long penetrated all the dominant financial empires of the planet. And besides Apple and IT giants, controls the money of everyone, everyone, everyone.

Recently, the world was shocked by sensational news - the capitalization of the Bitten Apple company exceeded $700 billion. But that’s not all: “Apple investor and major shareholder Carl Icahn estimated the value of one share of this company at $216, which is $91 higher than their current value

Recently, the world was shocked by sensational news - the capitalization of the Bitten Apple company exceeded $700 billion.

But that's not all:

“Apple investor and major shareholder Carl Icahn estimated the value of one share of this company at $216, which is $91 higher than their current value. According to Icahn, Apple’s capitalization should be about $1.3 trillion” (RBC)

Let's leave the question of the fairness of such a fantastic share price, and take it as a fact that Apple is the world's largest company. Let's ask a simple but sensitive question: who owns this company, whose value is equal to the budgets of several European countries combined?

It would seem that the quote from RBC clearly and clearly states that the main shareholder is a certain Carl Icahn, an eccentric billionaire, a cynical business shark, a famous raider and extortionist, a brawler and much more. In fact, it is he who is most often mentioned in the media as the main shareholder and newsmaker. There is also Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple (the one who is officially gay), but he is a figure appointed by the shareholders, that is, he is not the owner in any way.

However, after carefully studying the situation, we discover an amazing fact - billionaire Carl Icahn owns only 1 (one) percent of Apple shares. Of course, the cost of even one percent is a huge amount, but it’s only one hundredth! Where is the rest? The question is not so much hidden, but in the example of the same RBC, it is not only hushed up, but also openly falsified in the media.

Is it really difficult to look at open and completely official data from the register of shareholders? There is nothing simpler, and we can easily do it ourselves:

Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 5.68%

State Street Corporation 4.11%

FMR, LLC 3.07%

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 2.72%

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 1.42%

Northern Trust Corporation 1.39%

BlackRock Fund Advisors 1.21%

Amazing. discovery, but Carl Icahn is not even among the ten largest shareholders of Apple! Who are these mysterious real owners?

In first place is Vanguard Group - for the uninitiated reader, and for many economists, the name is unfamiliar, although in any reference book you can find information that the company controls assets of as much as 2 trillion dollars ($2000 billion). Which is three times the cost of the same Apple! These are such modest people. In fact, the amount of assets under their control is several times larger, but we will look at this later.

Before moving on to further analysis of the shareholder structure and ownership, we should make a short digression.

The ideals of democracy(C) and the media image that serves as a screen for the true owners do not sit well with the fact that all of the world's largest companies are owned by the same few people. How to hide this obvious contradiction? Everything is very simple - you need to create the appearance that there are supposedly many owners (shareholders) and they are all “different”.

Indeed, how can the “masters of the world” have a measly 5-6% of shares? Yes, any liberal will laugh in your face if you tell him this. The fact that these “measly six percent” are worth forty to fifty billion dollars does not bother anyone - with such a modest package it is already guaranteed to appoint its own CEO. For complete control of a company with a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars, twenty percent is required - no more is needed, since it is impossible for competitors to collect a packet of more than 20% (it will cost under a hundred yards).

And suddenly, some Chinese will buy as much as seven percent of the shares and they will be able to run everything in the largest American company?

"This shouldn't happen!" - the real masters of the world decided a long time ago and hedged their bets.

To understand how they exercised total control and maintained the appearance of the absence of one owner, we return to our list of shareholders. In second place is the company:

State Street Corporation - owns 4.11%

And who are they, the ordinary reader will ask? And again Google (yahoo) helps us:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=STT+Major+Holders

And who are its largest shareholders?

1.Massachusetts Financial Services Co (Canadian insurance company - who owns it confusingly)

2.Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc - 7%

3.Vanguard Group (where would we be without him!) - 6%

4. BlackRock (coming soon!) - 5%

Let's take an even deeper look at who is the shareholder of Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc

and we see the same acquaintances: Vanguard and BlackRock (remember this name, it often appears, going hand in hand with our main character)

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=TRow+Major+Holders

That is, in exactly the same manner, the monster Vanguard controls the second main shareholder of Apple! A simple trick and ten percent of the apple's shares are already in your pocket. But that's not all!

In the top ten there are two companies with the similar name BlackRock &BlaBla and the third time the name BlackRock is mentioned in State Street shareholders. (by the way, Vanguard has dozens of such subsidiaries - so it’s not a fact that we can count all of their holdings even approximately - even the largest ones)

Naturally, among the owners of BlackRock we find all the same people:

Add another four percent and we already get 14% of all Apple shares held by one company - Vanguard! And again, that's not all.

What else is left among the dummy owners of Yablouk?

FMR LLC (Fidelity Management and Research), Fidelity Investments, similarly, we will find exactly identical names among the shareholders: Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and so on.

That is, Fidelity is again controlled by Vanguard Group!

Total: a “modest” 17% in the piggy bank.

That is, Vanguard:

1. Officially - the main shareholder of Apple. For comparison, the clown who publicly portrays Apple's largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, has only 1% of the shares, which is five times less than this one package.

2. Vanguard also has the largest stakes in almost all other companies that own large shares of Apple. But even that is not enough!

3. Vanguard not only owns the largest blocks of shares, but also controls the shareholders of the companies from point 2.!!!

And in conclusion, a quote from Tatyana Volkova’s blog on the topic:

About the octopus, the pyramid - and in general a continuation about Vanguard

This is the picture that has emerged so far in the investigation. The largest companies in the world are Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Let's see who their largest shareholders are. Bank of America: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon.

JP Morgan: State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.

Citigroup: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, and Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.

Wells Fargo: Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.

Then check for yourself. The largest financial companies are fully controlled by ten institutional and/or stock shareholders, from which a core of four companies can be identified that are present in all cases and in all decisions: Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street. They all “belong to each other,” but if you carefully balance the shareholdings, you will find that Vanguard actually controls all of these partners or “competitors,” that is, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street.

Now let's look at the "tip of the iceberg". That is, several selected as the largest companies in various industries controlled by these "Big Four" and, upon closer examination, simply the Vanguard corporation: Alcoa Inc. Altria Group Inc., American International Group Inc., AT&T Inc., Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc., Coca-Cola Co., DuPont & Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., General Electric Co., General Motors Corporation, Hewlett- Packard Co., Home Depot Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., McDonald's Corp., Merck & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp. ., 3M Co., Pfizer Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., United Technologies Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, CBS Corporation, NBC Universal... published