Sentences with phrase «about share repurchases»

There's always a lot of talk about share repurchases, especially by value investors and dividend investors.

In looking at all sides of the argument about share repurchases, one could say that companies that were repurchasing their own shares during the bull market of the 1990s looked smart as the value of their shares continued to go up, and foolish a decade later in the bear market of the 2000s as their shares declined in value.

We wish more managements thought about share repurchases this way.

Not exact matches

By their very nature, forward - looking statements require us to make assumptions and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties, which give rise to the possibility that our predictions, forecasts, projections, expectations or conclusions will not prove to be accurate, that our assumptions may not be correct and that our forward - looking statements, including statements about the specific share repurchase program forming part of the normal course issuer bid by Royal Bank of Canada, will not be achieved.

The hospital products maker, whose fourth - quarter profit beat analysts» expectations, said it would repurchase about $ 500 million worth of shares in the ongoing quarter.

«The reluctance to pull the trigger on share repurchases suggests corporate leaders are becoming less enthusiastic about what they see ahead.»

Companies executing repurchases through Bank of America Corp. have bought about $ 9 billion of shares in 2016, the second - busiest start to a year since the bull market began in 2009, the bank said in a research note last week.

And then lastly, we feel great about the amount of cash that this business continues to kick off, allowing us to reinvest in this low risk, high return new unit growth and the infrastructure to support it, while continuing to pay a competitive and over time, growing dividend, as well as consistent, robust share repurchases.

As I wrote last year, the 500 largest U.S. companies repurchased about a quarter of their equity's dollar value from 1998 to 2012, but the number of shares outstanding actually grew more than 7 % over that same period.

The company is also targeting about $ 2 billion worth of share repurchases.

There are 330,000 shares remaining on the current share repurchase program, which represents about 3 % of the outstanding shares.

Yeah, going back to that about $ 1.75 cash you have on the balance sheet with the stock trade $ 0.80, and we're willing to buy back stock at $ 1.53, why will you not contemplate, and you have a 4 million share repurchase authorized, why won't you engage in privately negotiated transactions, or a Dutch auction tender offer?

Over the past four years, Wal - Mart has repurchased about 570 million shares.

There is much debate about whether companies should increase shareholder value by repurchasing their shares or returning excess cash to shareholders by way of dividends.

Shareholders of Wal - Mart can expect a return of about 5 % from dividends and share repurchases alone.

Coca Cola has already completed about $ 1.5 billion worth of net share repurchases this year, and has another $ 1 billion to $ 1.5 billion expected for the next two quarters.

The lower the share price, the more AIG can repurchase (they repurchased about 1/2 of the offer in the last two Treasury sales) and thus the more accretive to book value.

If no shares were repurchased I'll infer that either they are contemplating an investment (and they better tell me about it!)

Twenty companies announced a share repurchase, either through the open market, or through more formalized programs such as Dutch Auction tender offers (see our M&A Insights: «What About a Dutch Auction?»

But second, the Institutional Imperative's really about empire building... [And God forbid, share repurchases would shrink that empire!]

The company generated $ 13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned about $ 21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.