This week, Apple announced that it finally decided to start listening to investors, a little - it will now pay a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share, and repurchase $10 billion in stock over three years.

The company's magnanimity prompted us to revisit our analysis of a year ago of corporate cash holdings, and update our tally of the top ten cash hoarders.

With a little effort we identified the corporations with the top ten cash reserves. General Electric again heads the list, along with some of the usual suspects (Apple) and surprises (General Motors).

We also adjusted the figures for debt, and analyzed dividends and free cash flow. The top cash hoarder this way is of course Apple, with a few other interesting companies making that list.

See both lists, and the analysis underlying all this, in our current blog post.