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Buybacks have been a safety net of sorts for the stock market through the almost nine - year bull market.

The end of the buybacks this fall is likely to lead to a stock market drop as investors reassess company valuations in general, experts say.

Buybacks, said Aguilar, are done because that's the way companies think they can get the best return on their investment, so with a more volatile stock market and harder access to credit, spending cash on long - term growth becomes the best option.

The math on stock buybacks is pretty simple: by repurchasing your own company's stock in the market you reduce the number of shares outstanding, thereby increasing your earnings per share by cutting your denominator (earnings per share is calculated by dividing income by shares outstanding).

According to research by HSBC, buybacks have been the largest source of net demand for the stock market since 2009.

For most of the stock market's history, buybacks were actually illegal — considered to be insider trading — the thought being that if you ran the company, you would have nonpublic information to know when to buy shares.

According to Sonders and Aguilar, however, the end of buybacks dominating the stock market will see a shift both in the next round of stock market buying and in corporate behavior going forward.

«There's no question that by far corporate buyback have been the source of most of the buying in the stock market,» Sonders told Business Insider on Wednesday.

Never mind that because of aggressive stock buybacks that reduced the company's share count, Microsoft's market cap is $ 460 billion, far below the old peak.

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Coupled with its favorable market segments, Sprouts is generating positive cash flow and returning cash to shareholders via a stock buyback program.

All those buybacks have not kept AT&T from underperforming versus the broader market and VZ (which rarely buys back stock) over the past five and ten years.

At current prices, the 250 million share buyback authorization would represent $ 13.2 billion and through 3Q15, Wells Fargo has repurchased $ 6.7 billion of common stock, which represents 2.5 % of WFC's market cap.

Has the market evolved to extinguish exploitability of reactions to corporate stock buyback and secondary offering activities?

But shareholder primacy isn't a new phenomenon: Birinyi Associates, a market research firm, has tracked $ 9.9 trillion in stock buyback announcements since 1984.

The company recently announced an $ 8.6 billion (1 % of market cap) stock buyback program, and it would not be surprising to see that number increase significantly in the near future.

If instead we use total expenditures on dividends plus net stock buyback cash plus change in total debt divided by market capitalization, we don't need to worry about changes in share count due to stock splits.

Perhaps more interesting is how the market is starting to treat the stocks of companies that spend more on capital expenditures rather than buybacks and dividends.

In the stock market in the last year, one - third of all of the stock transactions in the United States were corporate buybacks.

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Buybacks, like the one Apple just announced, are why the stock market's been soaring despite a recession.

A stock buyback, or repurchase, occurs when a company buys its own shares off the market and therefore reduces the amount of stock outstanding.

In comparison, the market gained 10.5 % per year over the same period and stocks with the lowest 10 % of buyback yields climbed only 5.9 % per year.

About BM = Book Value / Market Cap...... the numerator too is polluted in case of stocks buybacks.

They're buying back $ 1.5 billion worth of common stock (about 3.2 % of the market cap of the company), which is three times the amount of money the company spent on buybacks during the first two quarters of the year.

Stock buybacks happen as companies either borrow money or deploy excess cash flows to purchase their own shares on the open market.

A buyback is when a company repurchases its stock with the goal of reducing the number of its share on the market.

Going to something more mundane, Mark Hulbert points out some research showing that companies that buyback their stock outperform the market.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's upcoming directional shift will make it more expensive to borrow new money in the bond market, hampering stock buybacks as cash flow from sales continues to decline.

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There is no discussion by G&D of stock buybacks as a method of enhancing a common stock's market price over the long run, giving the management the flexibility to retain cash in troubled times, and also increasing the percentage ownership interest of each non-selling stockholder.

There is a lot of commentary on buybacks from pundits who have been wrong about the stock market for a time period now measured in years.

The second way to make money in the stock market is through dividends and share buybacks.

Repatriation might also help reduce supply, as some corporations previously using the bond markets to raise cash for stock buybacks may no longer need to do so.

The Underlying Index, created by Dhandho, utilizes a proprietary, rules - based methodology to select approximately 100 U.S. equity securities, master limited partnerships («MLPs») and American depositary receipts listed on the NYSE, NYSE Arca and the NASDAQ Stock Market from three categories of issuers: Share Buybacks, Select Value Manager Holdings, and Spin - Offs.

Thus, I think the floor for the stock is pretty close below me, and there is a decent possibility that Buffett could do some things with the cash that are even better than buybacks, especially if the market falls into bear territory.

As to your desire to see share buybacks included in market indices, I believe that buyback information would be much more useful to buyers of individual stocks.

«The market is still a little bearish right now, but it presents a good opportunity [for stock buybacks and property acquisitions],» says Niti Nguansiri, manager of real estate research with SNL Financial, a Charlottesville, Va. - based research firm.