Still, like Intel, Microsoft is a growing, profitable and cash-rich company.

To help profits in the near term, many cash-rich Japanese companies have embarked on a strategy known as zaitech, or financial engineering.

Many other cash-rich companies, especially in pharmaceuticals and technology, are expected to follow suit.

In this marketplace, there are only a few cash-rich companies, and Reader's Digest is one.

Value investors, who are risk-averse as well, also like cash-rich companies because cash can be insurance against troubled times.

He said that one reason is that Texaco is a cash-rich company.

In the 1980's, corporate raiders and other investors focused on cash-rich companies instead of companies with large future earnings, he said.

It's not a very big fine, at least not for a cash-rich company like Apple.

Only large, cash-rich companies with many diverse transport areas can survive such a system in a sustainable manner.

As he puts it: "WD-40 is a very cash-rich company and they've had a hell of a year."