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Apple Raises $17 Billion in Bond Market

Largest corporate bond sale on record helps company avoid repatriation taxes.

By Charles Mead and Sarika Gangar, Bloomberg | Updated on April 30, 2013

Apple Inc., the iPhone maker seeking to help finance a $100 billion capital reward for shareholders, sold $17 billion of bonds in the biggest corporate offering on record.

Apple issued $3 billion of floating-rate notes and $14 billion of fixed-rate securities in six parts with maturities from three to 30 years, according to a person familiar with the offering. Proceeds may help the company avoid repatriation taxes on its $102.3 billion of funds held overseas as Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returns an additional $55 billion to shareholders through 2015 to compensate for a stock that’s been hammered by signs of slowing growth.

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