In addition to geographic location, we find foreign cash is not uniformly distributed across industries. Our sample includes firms from 62 two-digit SIC industries. Within this sample, 86% of cash is held by firms in only nine industries; 70% is held by firms in only five industries (see Supplementary Table 1). These industries also have high foreign income, but cash is more asymmetrically distributed than income. The top nine industries sorted by foreign cash generate 32% of their income abroad, compared with 13% for the rest of the sample. Table 2 shows that MNCs actually have lower R&D and lower market to book ratios, whereas firms with large foreign cash holdings are often described as investing in mainly intangible assets. We see evidence of intangible assets when we look at the industries that have the most foreign cash (see Supplementary Table 1). The industry names are not obvious at first since the two-digit industries are quite broad. However, subsectors of the top industries are ones commonly associated with intangible assets. The top industries include: Chemical and Allied products (e.g., pharmaceuticals), Industrial Machinery and Equipment (e.g., computer hardware), Business services (e.g., computer software), and Food & Kindred products (e.g., beverages). In Section 3, we discuss how intangible assets contribute to the rise in corporate cash.