Sentences with phrase «buying back»

Buying back its debt at a discount helped California Resources improve its balance sheet, and the company maintained production levels while cutting costs by becoming more efficient.

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.

In theory, corporations should have a distinct advantage over the rest of the market when buying back their shares.

While the lack of revenue growth is disappointing, I like that the company is aggressively buying back stock, cutting costs, and increasing margins in order to continue growing profits.

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.

The stock should be trading at a PEBV below 1, meaning the company is buying back shares for cents on the dollar.

BP will soon be buying back shares, too.

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.

Apple has not officially said how much it will spend buying back its stock in the 2014 fiscal year, which ends in September.

We see this in the capitulation on growth of many of our major industries who are now buying back stock with their excess earnings.

The firm also sees a decent chance that Exxon will start buying back stock.

We may also see miners» taking some action to boost their share prices, whether it be through increasing their dividends or buying back shares.

Companies have been spending those profits buying back their shares and on dividends — both good for equity investors.

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.

Wouldn't it be smarter to cash out and wait for the next market to fall before buying back in at much lower prices?

Despite the fact that Disney did not cut its earnings forecasts, despite the fact that cable subscriptions are only a small portion of Disney's otherwise great businesses and despite the fact the company is buying back stock hand over fist, the markets have still chosen to abandon Disney.

The financial portion of your cash flow statement includes items like loan or credit line obligations (repayment from borrowing money), issuing or buying back stock, and any cash dividends.

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..

And then the second question for Sabrina, on the line of credit, and your appetite for buying the stock back here, is there a minimum cash balance or just kind of viewpoint as we look into next year, what your appetite could look like to be buying back stock at the pace you have the last couple of years?

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.

It has some other things going for it as well: it's generating strong operating profit growth in China and Latin America; it's done a good job of extracting cost savings and it's buying back shares at a healthy clip.

As the impact of new tax cuts circulates through corporate balance sheets, businesses are getting an infusion of cash, and much of the windfall is going toward buying back stock.

Olivier said the company will take a breather from more acquisitions and buying back its own shares while it integrates the operations and reduces its debt load by 2020.

Activision itself is buying back US$ 5.83 billion worth of stock, while the investment group led by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Co-Chairman Brian Kelly will buy an additional US$ 2.34 billion.

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

Even if you've got time on your side, the financial strain created by buying back stock from departing employees is another limiting factor.

One reason why its equity has climbed is that it's buying back shares.

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

«If what we as a nation are going to focus on is pulling stuff out of the ground, selling it to the world and then buying back the finished goods, I can tell you from a prosperity perspective which way we're going, and it's not up,» says John Ruffolo, head of the venture capital arm of OMERS.

Short selling is a practice in which traders can bet against a company by selling shares they don't own and buying them back at a lower price.

Perth - based explorer Bauxite Resources has announced it is buying back up to 10 per cent of its issued stock over a 12 month period.

Exxon and Chevron told investors on Friday that it was too soon to begin buying back shares, something Wall Street has pushed for.

It's also been buying back shares.

«It's not just Apple that's buying back stock like there's no tomorrow.»

«Buying back Bebo for $ 1 million was a smart move.

With limited growth opportunities in a low interest rate environment, many CFOs have argued buying back stock is the best way to boost shareholder value in the near - term.

The move followed a spike from a low of $ 6,786 to above $ 8,000, which many traders attributed to investors covering their shorts, or buying back into the market after betting against bitcoin.

By buying back $ 50 billion in stock at high prices, thus diminishing its balance sheet just as its competitors were bulging with cash.

The final bill permits firms buying back debt in 2009 or 2010 to spread the income charge over five years, beginning in 2014.

The Senate would permit firms buying back debt in 2009 or 2010 to spread the income charge over eight years, beginning in 2011.»

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

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

It's also almost a sure bet that the company will start buying back even more of its shares.

As much as $ 150 billion, or 75 %, would be spent on buying back their own shares, which has previously supported the stock market.

Mostly they're paying executives a whole lot of money and buying back stock to make shareholders happy.

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.

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.

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

«I'm very sympathetic to companies buying back shares,» Mike Thompson, head of S&P Investment Advisory Services, told Business Insider.

Apple's 16 % dividend increase seemed low to HSBC analyst Pelayo, but Apple is emphasizing buying back stock, instead, he noted.