Once again, I&#x27;m saying for a third time that I agree this isn&#x27;t going to happen.  I am just suggesting that if it did occur it would have to go down something like this.<p>It would be easy to get financing to purchase 49% of the company if you had 51% of the company to put up for colleteral.  You could even theoretically do a leveraged buyout with a much smaller percentage of ownership.  Michael Dell did it with something like 20% of the value of Dell.  The reason you might need 51% here is to force it through.  The actual price paid on that 49% percent is almost irrelevant to this discussion because of this easy financing.  The problem is acquiring the first 51%.  That is why I said the following in my last post<p>&gt;The reason it would never happen is because those investors would have to buyout enough people to amass 51% ownership in the company. That means they would need over $150 billion of the $300 billion post buyout value in cash and stock.<p>The stock buyback is an important part because it increases the insiders&#x27; percentage ownership of the company while not raising the value of the company.  If Apple were to purchase a 100 million shares of the company, they would also be spending Apple&#x27;s money.  That transaction is completely balanced, company value doesn&#x27;t change.  If Tim Cook purchased 100 million public shares of the company, the stock would go up because it is injecting new money into the equation.