Sentences with phrase «back shares of stock»

The upbeat perception for corporate profitability primarily relates to companies buying back shares of stock.

The management has wisely bought back shares of the stock at severely depressed levels, and doesn't seem to get too carried away with regular buybacks, preferring to return excess cash to shareholders in the form of special dividends (much preferred to buybacks).

The act of buying back shares of stock is a separate capital allocation decision, regardless of the reason why you're buying those shares.

It will suppress their ability to buy back shares of their stocks and inhibit necessary capital expenditures.

Not exact matches

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..

Citi, along with HSBC, Goldman Sachs, and Nomura, initially arranged the $ 1.8 billion loan, backed by some 628 million shares of Steinhoff's now - crippled stock.

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.

Moreover, Boeing has been buying back swaths of its own shares — a boon for both its shareholders and its stock price.

The moves higher in the region came on the back of U.S. stocks finishing the Friday session little changed despite strong earnings as technology shares pulled back.

WA - based LNG Ltd has fallen back to earth as an oversupply of liquefied gas worldwide is hitting the share prices of gas - exposed stocks.

On Monday, U.S. stocks pulled back from record highs, with the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes marking their biggest one - day percentage declines in about five months, weighed down by a slide in Apple shares on reports of poor iPhone X demand.

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.

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.

Though the billionaire investor recently backed down from his fight with Apple for a stock buyback, he still may have won the battle; CEO Tim Cook announced Apple repurchased $ 14 billion of its shares.

Some foreign investors, rather than crunching data on earnings and stock valuations to come up with investment strategies, actively mimicked the actions of China's so - called «national team» — a group of state - backed financial institutions that were tasked with propping up share prices in the height of the market rout.

Disney also announced that it would buy back $ 10 billion of stock to offset the share dilution from the deal.

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.

That's why the «Mad Money» host backed the stock of Lowe's even when the retailer's shares plummeted on Wednesday in the wake of a weaker - than - expected earnings report.

Yahoo says it is buying back 40 million shares of stock owned by Daniel Loeb's Third Point for $ 29.11 a share.

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.

That's because many big enterprises regularly issue more stock than they buy back, using the proceeds for repurchase of new shares from newly exercised options and vested restricted stock, for M&A, and for secondary offerings.

Finally, dividends can be reinvested back into more shares of dividend - paying stock, supercharging your ability to build wealth.

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.

If Tim Hortons increased its ratio of adjusted net debt to four times earnings with C$ 2 billion of debt it could fund a special dividend of $ 13 a share or buy back up to 23 percent of the stock, the note said.

In January 2014, the Company's Chief Executive Officer contributed 8,976,000 shares of preferred stock back to the Company for no consideration.

After soaring 33 % after earnings yesterday, Intelsat (NYSE: I) stock is giving back some of its gains today, with shares down 9.4 % as of 11: 15 a.m. EDT.

In January 2015, the Company's Chief Executive Officer contributed 5,068,238 shares of common stock back to the Company for no consideration.

Figure 1 shows this value - destroying behavior in action for GE (GE) by comparing between the amount of money spent buying back shares and the price to economic book value (PEBV), a measure of the growth expectations embedded in the stock price.

For the first time since it went public, Snap Inc. shares went back down to $ 17, which is the price of the company's stock for its initial public offering in March.

In buying back billions of dollars worth of stock last year, ORCL retired its shares cheaply without compromising its ability to invest in future growth.

That means executives can pay employees (and themselves) with stock instead of cash, buy back shares to offset the dilution, and increase these adjusted metrics without doing anything to improve real operating performance.

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.

Corporate raiders pay their high - interest bondholders, while financial managers also are using this ebitda for stock buy - backs to increase share prices (and hence the value of their stock options).

The shares used are for the purposes of the stock ownership plan, and the company pays back the original loan with annual contributions, as it is able.

In the body of the e-mail, Yaffe wrote «Just wanted to follow - up with you and put this to bed ASAP... In a perfect world would love to have you wire him back $ 170,000 and gift him 15,000 shares of Retrophin stock and that would fulfill the note obligation and more importantly doing the right thing and manning up as we spoke about.»

For example, when we put Amazon (AMZN) in the Danger Zone back in May 2013, we highlighted that the current stock price of $ 267 / share embedded the expectation that the company would grow profits by 25 % compounded annually for 25 years.

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

Aflac also announced a 5.4 % increase in their quarterly dividend to $ 0.39 a share and increased the size of their buyback plan from $ 1 billion to $ 1.2 billion which I like since it shows management is being smart when it comes to buying back stock on cheap valuations.

To get more specific, our dynamic DCF model shows that even if we assume OCLR's NOPAT declines by 50 % in 2018 and takes a decade to get back to current levels, the stock has a present value of $ 7.60 / share, a 12 % premium to the current valuation.

When these loans became illiquid, and the firm had no ability to pay back its creditors, Lehman Brothers experienced a credit crunch; it could no longer cheaply raise cash via debt issuance, and issuing stock under such conditions led to both dilution of shares and negative sentiment, which caused its share price to fall.

In spite of this long record of federal support for profit sharing and employee stock ownership, the Federal Government has backed off its support for broad - based employee stock ownership and profit sharing during virtually every recent Presidential administration for almost four decades, a trend that has lasted to the present.

Back in August of this year, I shared with you the comparison charts of gold and silver stocks.

Recommended Trade (based on the charts) Buy Price: If you want to get in on this trade, you can purchase shares of HAL when the stock pulls back to the neckline of the pattern breakout.

«When the board of directors of a company decides to buy - back its stock in the open market, it may well be a sign that they believe the shares are undervalued and do not adequately reflect the prospect for growth.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Short sellers profit when the price of a stock (or another asset) falls; they accomplish this by borrowing shares, selling them, and buying them back later to return to the original owner.

Offering bank investors a view of the company stock, Dimon contended that it still made financial sense for JPMorgan to buy back shares «even at or above two times tangible book value» per share, which was $ 53.56 at year - end.