Sentences with phrase «big stock buybacks»

Apple stock traded up more than 1.8 percent Monday to $ 165.26 per share, ahead of its Tuesday afternoon earnings and amid chatter that it could announce a big stock buyback.

The Icahn group demanded the company sell off certain units and commence a big stock buyback.

Not exact matches

In an interview, Rendle told Fortune the company is looking for its next big deal, even as he said VF would focus on building up its online and international businesses to spur growth, and touted a $ 5 billion share buyback program to boost the stock.

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.

Apple's stock buyback program isn't just bigger than those of other companies, it's also better at doing what investors want share repurchases to do.

Those so - called buybacks are good for shareholders, including the senior executives who tend to be big owners of their companies» stock.

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

NEW YORK Quirks in the new U.S. tax code are sowing doubts over how much big banks can boost dividends and stock buybacks this year, threatening to take the shine off what are likely to be strong quarterly profits.

«I would hope that with their big advantage of bringing money home at a very low rate that they would invest in infrastructure and things, but our experience has been that they will do dividends, they will do stock buybacks, and things like that,» she said.

And in terms of what businesses planned to do with any profit returned from abroad, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey of more than 300 CEOs found that paying down debt and stock buybacks were by far and away the biggest priorities for businesses.

But that's changed in recent decades: Corporations have been big buyers of their own stock, and these share buybacks have roughly offset new issuance.

Personally, I would announce a generalized buyback without a lot of hoopla; make it boring, this is insurance after all so that should not be hard; get some actuaries to toss in big words to aid in obfuscation, so few conclude that the company will buy back significant stock.