You can even set up a plan that will let you use the discount to
buy shares in cash.
Not exact matches
A recent drilling campaign at Perth based hammer Metals» «Millennium» project
in Mt Isa has unearthed a cocktail of mineralization on a tenement package that cost the mining junior just $ 83k
in cash and
shares — and they
bought it from Chinese interests.
The entrepreneurial dream of selling a startup for megabucks came true for the founders of photo -
sharing app Instagram when Facebook agreed to
buy the company for $ 1 billion
in cash and stock.
Melbourne - based nickel explorer PLD Corporation has signed an option agreement to
buy collapsed miner Kagara's Admiral Bay zinc project
in the Canning Basin for a
cash and
shares package worth up to $ 7 million.
Nedlands - based sandalwood producer TFS Corporation will
buy two US pharmaceutical companies for $ US23.4 million ($ A30.3 million)
in cash and
shares.
Broadcom is preparing to unveil an unsolicited offer to
buy Qualcomm for as much as $ 70 a
share in cash and stock tomorrow morning.
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 «Squawk on the Street» team discusses the news that General Mills is
buying natural pet food company Blue Buffalo
in a $ 40 per
share all -
cash deal.
Colloquially called buybacks,
share repurchases —
in which a company uses its own
cash to
buy its own stock — are all the rage these days.
But
in Buffett's ideal world, all excess
cash is used to
buy other companies that grow shareholders» per -
share earnings.
Microsemi — Microsemi agreed to be
bought by rival chipmaker Microchip Technology $ 8.3 billion, or $ 68.78 per
share in cash.
The more successful the company, the more each employee's
shares increase
in value — and the more
cash the business must cough up to
buy them back.
Herbalife also announced a self - tender offer to
buy as much as $ 600 million of its own
shares that comes with a contingent
cash payment if Herbalife is acquired
in a private transaction within two years.
Mondi, which is also listed
in London, said it would
buy all the
shares in National Company for Paper Products and Import & Export S.A.E (NPP) on a debt and
cash free - basis.
The online giant said Friday it was
buying the high - end grocer for $ 42 a
share in an all -
cash deal, valuing the company at $ 13.7 billion.
The
cash and
shares deal could also provide a potential exit route for Walmart, as Asda, which it
bought in 1999 for 6.7 billion pounds, has been struggling to grow over the last five years as discounters Aldi and Lidl attract its price - conscious customers.
The company said it would
buy Microsoft's stake
in Nook Media for $ 62.4 million
in cash and about 2.7 million
in shares.
Dai - ichi Life Co., a Japanese life insurance company, has agreed to
buy Birmingham, Ala. - basedProtective Life Corp. (NYSE: PL) for $ 5.7 billion, or $ 70 per
share in cash (19 % premium over yesterday's closing price.
It also counted 180,000 barrels of upgraded oil per day from the oilsands operations it
bought for about $ 11.1 billion
in cash and
shares from Royal Dutch Shell last spring.
DeFrancesco was part of an investment syndicate led by Yogen Früz co-founder Michael Serruya that
bought $ 15 - million worth of
shares two years ago, providing the company with desperately needed
cash, and later exercised another $ 15 million
in warrants.
The «Squawk on the Street» team talks about Salesforce's biggest acquisition to date,
buying software company Mulesoft
in a deal worth $ 44.89 per
share in cash and stock.
Facebook
bought the photo -
sharing social network for about $ 1 billion
in cash and stock before Istagram was generating any revenue.
April 2012: Facebook announces plans to
buy Instagram, a photo -
sharing social network, for $ 1 billion
in cash and stock.
Vectren — Vectren will be
bought by rival utility CenterPoint Energy for $ 72 per
share in cash, or a total of about $ 6 billion.
Dell has proposed to give EMC shareholders tracking
shares linked to VMware
in addition to
cash in order to
buy them out.
More than 217 million
shares traded on Thursday, as some investors
bought and others
cashed in, exceeding the number of
shares Snap sold
in the I.P.O.
In the weeks that followed, the banks appear to have used a sizable share of the cash to buy the European bonds so desperately in need of customer
In the weeks that followed, the banks appear to have used a sizable
share of the
cash to
buy the European bonds so desperately
in need of customer
in need of customers.
Armed with such results, Shell and Total are
in payback mood to investors,
buying back
shares after diluting stakes with scrip dividends - consisting of
shares rather than
cash - introduced after the price crash which sent oil prices as low as $ 28 a barrel.
(Reuters)- Toromont Industries Ltd (TIH.TO) said on Monday it would
buy privately held Hewitt Group for about C$ 1.02 billion ($ 818 million)
in cash and
shares to expand its network of heavy equipment dealers
in eastern Canada.
(Reuters)- Murphy Oil Corp (MUR.N) said it will spin off its smaller retail gasoline business
in the United States, review options for other assets, pay a special dividend and
buy back
shares as it seeks to return more
cash to shareholders.
On Friday, Calpine agreed to be
bought for $ 15.25
in cash per
share, representing a 13 percent premium to its closing price on Thursday.
When you short a security, you hold the
cash proceeds from the sale
in the hopes that you can
buy back the
shares at a lower price point and pocket the difference.
Viavi Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: VIAV)
shares rose 15.3 percent Friday following the announcement that it would
buy COBHAM (OTC: CBHMF)'s AvComm and wireless test and measurement businesses for $ 455 million
in cash.
Why would companies expend free
cash to
buy back
shares, instead of investing
in production?
This is the same Jamie Dimon who didn't need a
cash infusion when Hank Paulson summoned chief executives of the nine largest U.S. banks to the Treasury
in October 2008, handed them an agreement to sell
shares to the U.S. government and told them to sign it; the same Jamie Dimon who managed to steer JPMorgan through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and remain profitable; the same Jamie Dimon whom the government tapped to
buy Bear Stearns Cos. to prevent potential fallout from its collapse; the same Jamie Dimon who was held up as amodel for how a bank should be run.
The sale of Garantia was a blow to Lemann, but it left him with
cash to invest, so he started
buying shares in Gillette, the razor manufacturer, and won a seat on the board.
The project is designed to
buy back tokens from holders who would like to
cash in at the market price of the token at the time, along with the tokens»
share of the corporate profits, funded by 35 percent of the company's profit on a prorated basis.
If I was another sort of blogger, I'd brag about how I went 30 % or so into
cash towards the end of 2007 and sold out of most of my dodgy bank
shares, and how I
bought heavily
in March 2009 (which I detailed at the time, here).
«
Buying -
in shares can be a smart tactic if a company is flush with
cash and the stock is
in the tank.
Fast forward and Tusk, who'd accepted his Uber pay
in equity and today oversees both a political strategy firm as well as a venture fund, tells us that he's
cashing out his
shares as part of the new investment being made by a SoftBank - led consortium of investors who are
buying both primary and secondary
shares.
Propping up
share prices — as the Chinese authorities have been doing
in recent weeks through bans on short selling and feeding
cash to brokers to
buy shares — represents a distortion
in the allocation of capital.
A stock buyback is basically a secondary offering
in reverse — instead of selling new
shares of stock to the public to put more
cash on the corporate balance sheet, a
cash - rich company expends some of its own funds on
buying shares of stock from the public.
In 2001, for example, investors cashed out of $ 17-1/2 billion in Class A shares, and bought $ 16 billion in new shares, leaving the fund at year end with net assets of about $ 14 billio
In 2001, for example, investors
cashed out of $ 17-1/2 billion
in Class A shares, and bought $ 16 billion in new shares, leaving the fund at year end with net assets of about $ 14 billio
in Class A
shares, and
bought $ 16 billion
in new shares, leaving the fund at year end with net assets of about $ 14 billio
in new
shares, leaving the fund at year end with net assets of about $ 14 billion.
You can
buy shares of stock
in thousands of companies across the world, and this stock can be sold quickly and easily for
cash, making it a very liquid asset.
That means you can
buy up to twice as many
shares as
in a
cash account, and this might let you take advantage of short - term market opportunities without selling any of your existing positions.
Wanda Hotel said it would
buy theme - park operator Wanda Culture Travel Innovation Group from Beijing Wanda Culture Industry Group for a provisional 6.3 billion yuan ($ 945 million), paid either
in cash,
shares or convertible bonds.
After all of his Berkshire
shares are distributed to charity, take the
cash, Buffett says, and just
buy index funds: My advice to the trustee couldn't be more simple: Put 10 % of the
cash in short - term government bonds and 90 %
in a very low - cost S&P 500 index fund.
As the market may open at a very different price from where it closed, this could lead to
shares being
bought for more
cash than is available
in your account.
To put it
in perspective, despite already being one of the most respected blue chip stocks
in the world, if you had
bought $ 100,000 of
shares in the firm on the day I was born back
in 1982, you'd now be sitting on approximately $ 7,285,450, of which $ 5,928,985.20 came from your 82,210
shares of the stock and $ 1,356,465 from
cash dividends collected over the years.
If you had used your $ 1.50 per
share in cash dividends to
buy more stock, you could have theoretically increased your total
share ownership position by around 2 percent if you did it through a low - cost dividend reinvestment program or a broker that didn't charge for the service.