Apple’s most recent earnings report shows that the company’s gigantic cash pile has grown past the quarter trillion dollar mark in the first three months of 2017. To be more precise, Apple had $256.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities by the end of the quarter, of which $239 billion was held outside the United States.
To illustrate how much money that is, here’s a hypothetical shopping list of companies that Apple could buy with all the money:
