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AAPL dividends paid against free cash flow, by fiscal year

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from AAPL Dividend History: Splits and Raises.

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AAPL dividends paid against free cash flow, by fiscal year — 13 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yeardividends_paid_billionsfree_cash_flow_billionsdividends_share_of_fcf_pct
201310.645.523.2
201411.150.122.2
201511.67016.5
201612.253.522.7
201712.851.824.7
201813.764.121.4
201914.158.924
202014.173.419.2
202114.59315.6
202214.8111.413.3
20231599.615.1
202415.2108.814
202515.498.815.6
Rows × columns
13 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for AAPL dividends paid against free cash flow, by fiscal year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year text 13 distinct values (2013, 2014, 2015…)
dividends_paid_billions number 10.6 to 15.4
free_cash_flow_billions number 45.5 to 111.4
dividends_share_of_fcf_pct number 13.3 to 24.7 percent

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
WITH annual_years AS
(
    SELECT
        toUInt16OrZero(toString(fiscal_year))                                            AS fy,
        argMax(abs(dividends), (filing_date, period_end))                                AS dividends_paid,
        argMax(net_cash_from_operating_activities, (filing_date, period_end))            AS operating_cash_flow,
        argMax(abs(purchase_of_property_plant_and_equipment), (filing_date, period_end)) AS capex
    FROM global_markets.stocks_cash_flow_statements
    WHERE has(tickers, 'AAPL')
      AND lower(timeframe) = 'annual'
    GROUP BY fy
    HAVING fy >= 2013
)
SELECT
    toString(fy)                                                                       AS year,
    round(toFloat64(dividends_paid) / 1e9, 1)                                          AS dividends_paid_billions,
    round(toFloat64(operating_cash_flow - capex) / 1e9, 1)                             AS free_cash_flow_billions,
    round(100 * toFloat64(dividends_paid) / toFloat64(operating_cash_flow - capex), 1) AS dividends_share_of_fcf_pct
FROM annual_years
ORDER BY year

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