Sentences with phrase «back company stock»

Over the last four years, revenue has increased steadily and the company has generated a steady cash flow to buy back company stock, pay a dividend, and pay down outstanding debt.

It echoes Druckenmiller's argument that cash is not being re-invested into machinery, labour and R&D but is instead being used to buy back company stock and artificially boost share prices.

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Saudi Arabia is walking back plans for a massive public share offering for state oil giant Aramco, the world's biggest oil company, on a big international stock exchange.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks clawed back early losses Tuesday as Apple led a rally in technology companies.

Additionally, the company tried to curry favor with investors by pledging to buy back another $ 100 billion of its own stock and raise its dividend by 16 %.

Capping off 2017, the company say its stock jump 3.9 % when Metro Inc. began selling back the majority of its Couche - Tard shares — about $ 1.55 billion worth — to help fund its purchase of sister drug store chain Jean Coutu Group Inc..

The company said in February that it planned to buy back up to $ 5 billion of stock over 2018 - 2020 to share the benefits of higher oil prices with investors.

Billionaire investor Ron Baron, a huge shareholder in the electric car company, told CNBC back in November that he believes he can make 20 times his money on the stock over the next 10 to 15 years.

«We had an outside company grade us on our inventory and our back stock» shortly before OTS's implementation, one assistant department manager recalled.

It's worth noting that most owners also retain the right to buy back the stock from employees if they should decide to leave the company, usually using the same formula they used to establish the original strike price.

Earnings season is upon us, and once again there are dire warnings that stocks will be weak because companies are entering a «blackout period» where they will not be able to buy back their stock.

If all companies really stopped buying back stock in the month of their earnings reports, you would think there would invariably be no buybacks in that first month.

The answer is that companies have been buying back their own stock.

SecondMarket is the largest centralized marketplace and auction platform for illiquid assets, such as asset - backed securities, auction - rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, private company stock, residential and commercial mortgage - backed securities, restricted securities and block trades in public companies, and whole loans.

Waste Management CEO Jim Fish disputes the narrative that major companies are only using corporate tax cut benefits to buy back stock.

From falling stock prices to the threat of bankruptcy, these CEOs brought their companies back from the brink.

In what was possibly a preemptive move by the company, the Wells board of directors decided to take back $ 41 million in stock - based compensation from Stumpf along with just over $ 16 million in stock options from former community - banking head Carrie Tolstedt.

The number of companies buying back stock during the quarter totaled 383, up from 380 in the prior quarter.

He referred to the trend of companies buying back their shares to drive up their stock price, instead of making investments that will benefit the companies for years to come, as simply being unsustainable and dangerous.

We're back in a frothy market where in stead of being considered that they might be spending tons of money winning shares a company that one day could be worthless (like the stock of many startup companies)-- they always believe they're fighting for millions.

Though the IPO only gave Rovio half the market value the company had hoped for ($ 900 million ($ 1.1 billion) instead of its anticipated $ 2 billion), stock bounced back when a bank backing the IPO started purchasing shares to «stabilize» the price, according to Bloomberg.

Whatever the reason companies are buying back their own stock, it is becoming on of the biggest trends of the post-financial-crisis stock market.

IBM has aggressively used cash to buy back its stock, a move Buffett has often criticized companies about.

He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to buy back stocks, which it has done in the past.

The upstart trading and exchange company, backed by financial heavyweights like the Royal Bank of Canada and Barclays, is now accepting applications from companies and issuers of investment products, offering an alternative to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

To get money back to the investors they have to be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another company.

Just as President Obama's Affordable Care Act was seen as a boon to hospital and other health care stocks, President Trump's desire to roll back his predecessor's health reform law has threatened those same companies» share prices since he won the election.

In recent years, much has been made of how much companies are spending to buy back their own stock, particularly with buybacks up 50 % so far this year.

Because if you own a company that is buying back its own stock, you may have seen earnings per share go up.

Companies that buy back a lot of their own stock have also underperformed in recent months, according to the note.

Also stipulate that any employee leaving your privately held company must sell back any stock — and have a strong shareholder's agreement in place.

To short biotech stocks, Shkreli would have had to borrow shares in biotech companies, sell them, and ideally buy them back and return them at a lower price in order to pocket the difference.

The stock lost almost 3 % on Thursday amid rumors that the company asked its iPhone suppliers to cut back on production of the 8 models.

Amgen, the biggest independent biotechnology company in the world, said it bought back $ 10.7 billion worth of stock last quarter — seven times bigger than its 2017 buyback and an 8.5 percent decrease in its total share count.

These companies can increase dividends, buy back stock, reinvest by expanding their product offering or making an acquisition.

Software giant Oracle bought back $ 4 billion worth of stock last quarter, but Cramer thought the company's $ 70 billion pile of cash could've warranted an even larger buyback.

Companies then have to buy back stock, he says, to offset the dilution that comes from executive stock options.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

As one VC summed up: «We are watching closely, and I am sure the first to pull back will be the active public investors — they were the first to disappear in March 2014 when SaaS software company stocks dived.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and rarely buys back its own stock, so failing to consummate a few major transactions adds to the cash that keeps piling up from dozens of subsidiaries including insurer Geico and BNSF Railway.

At issue: the IRS's claim that Redstone owed $ 737,625 in unpaid gift taxes, dating back to his 1972 transfer of stock in National Amusements, his family's private holding company, into trusts for his two children.

The uptick in investor confidence has brought the company's stock back up after an October swoon that dropped shares of Unilever more than 18 % in less than two months.

The company's board also approved buying back up to $ 100 million in stock.

Executives at dozens of tech companies received back - dated stock options to take advantage of lower exercise prices.

Hambrecht says the weakness in the market dates back to 2001 and primarily has to do with changes in the way a newly public company's stock is bought and sold.

Chipotle Mexican Grill shares soared more than 17 % after the company beat on earnings, showed an improvement in same store sales, and announced it was allocating more money to buy back stock.

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.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

By separating into three independent companies, reducing unnecessary corporate overhead, operating at average industry returns, and buying back stock, AIG can trade at over $ 100 per share — 66 % above its current $ 60 price,» John Paulson, President, Paulson & Co..