Sentences with phrase «back outstanding shares»

Last, companies with high cash balances can also return money to you directly by paying off debt, and thus increasing profits; buying back outstanding shares; and even paying a dividend.

Not exact matches

The 8 - megapixel camera on the back is obviously not outstanding, but it takes decent enough photos that you won't be ashamed of sharing them on Facebook.

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.

Their prices are so low, in fact, that one firm, Suncor recently said it would buy back up to $ 500 million worth of its shares or about 1.1 % of outstanding issuance by next September.

In 2015, CSCO bought back 155 million shares, but after the effects of employee stock compensation it only reduced the total shares outstanding by 38 million.

In 2015, ORCL bought back $ 8.1 billion in stock (5 % of market cap), reducing shares outstanding by nearly 120 million.

The buy backs have reduced shares outstanding and propped up earnings per share over the past several years while net income has been on the decline.

GE, which backed its full - year profit outlook, said it expects to retire as much as 7 percent of its outstanding floated shares by mid-November, as it completes the spinoff of its former retail finance business, Synchrony Financial.

One bad decision (granting excessive stock - based compensation and not expensing it) led to a second bad decision (using real cash to buy back extremely overvalued shares in the open market to keep overall shares outstanding from skyrocketing).

That purchase is part of CGI's plan to buy back up to 20.6 million class A shares, or 8 % of the total outstanding, by February 6, 2019.

Since 2000, the company has spent about $ 26 billion on dividends and another $ 124 billion on share buy - backs, lowering the number of outstanding shares by 36 %.

Note that TJX's high returns on equity and invested capital (debt + equity) are skewed upwards by the large amount of stock it buys back each year (14 % of total shares outstanding during the past five years).

In fact, during the fourth quarter of 2013 alone, the company bought back 7 % of the total outstanding shares.

Tech companies buy back stock because they issue massive amount of cheap options to employees and upper management, and they need to somewhat offset the dilution from these options or face ballooning outstanding shares.

In fiscal year 2013 alone, Qualcomm bought back over $ 4.6 billion worth of stock reducing shares outstanding by 4 % ***.

Similarly, the pool of outstanding ETF shares can be dried up if one of the fat cats swaps back creation units for underlying shares in the basket.

Sure, the number of shares outstanding does not change when the company buys them back just as fast as they are issued.

Add back the $ 11 mm cash balance on June 30, 2009 and the company is sitting on nearly $ 6.4 in cash per share (based on 7.5 mm outstanding).

Nierenberg's agreement with ESIO provides that if ESIO buys back enough stock to push Nierenberg's holdings over 15 % of the outstanding shares, he will still be able to vote all of his stock as he wishes.

Companies can also opportunistically buy back stock, reducing shares outstanding.

Without opportunities for organic growth, through higher sales, companies have turned to buying back their shares to increase their earnings per shares outstanding.

Now, some of that bottom - line growth was due to extensive share repurchases — the company bought back approximately 23 % of the outstanding shares over the last 10 years.

At the end of 2014, $ 107.2 million remained on the program that, at current prices, would allow the company to buy back less than 1 % of its outstanding shares.

At Apple's current share price over 8 % of their shares outstanding could be bought back under the plan.

A negative number for the % change value means shares were bought back by the company and a positive value means the shares outstanding increased.

One bad decision (granting excessive stock - based compensation and not expensing it) led to a second bad decision (using real cash to buy back extremely overvalued shares in the open market to keep overall shares outstanding from skyrocketing).

The company buys back a portion of its own stock to lower the number of shares outstanding.

Assuming Apple buys back shares at the current market value, it would cut shares outstanding by 15.7 % by the end of 2015.

With the stock at these levels ($ 2.25), $ 650,000 buys back around 289,000 shares, which is a little over 10 % of the 2.7 M shares outstanding.

That is, it seeks to buy back 50 million shares of its common stock — approximately 7 percent of outstanding shares.