Sentences with phrase «buying back shares»

Selling assets and buying back shares is certainly possible,» Vinocur wrote in an email.

«They are as focused on buying back shares as buying hotels.»

The key point is that, rather than diluting performance by investing cash flows from historic high - return projects into newer low - return projects, companies might improve returns and lower risk for shareholders by boosting dividends and buying back shares.

As a shareholder I'm ecstatic that management seems to keep allocating capital in a way that continually increases book value by, among other things, buying back shares when the stock is below book.

The management team clearly agrees, spending almost $ 0.5 billion last year buying back shares — which is nicely accretive, considering ICON's underlying intrinsic value.

It is poor «capital structure» and they know it... of course they are doing the opposite and shrinking AUM by buying back shares and issuing dividends.

Focusing specifically on TFG, its long - term 12.4 % RoE certainly justifies a 1.0 price / book multiple — I can't predict when, but I am confident it will happen — as investor sentiment finally improves, TFG's NAV & AUM hopefully continue to increase, management continues buying back shares, management potentially considers & implements more radical value enhancement / realisation measures, a possible external acquirer / activist shows up, etc. — meanwhile, as I said, investors can focus on the compounding.

The only interesting moment of the call was when a question was asked about whether management shouldn't be doing something like buying back shares given the continuing chasm between book value ($ 11) and market price ($ 7 - 8).

Sometimes management goes for buying back shares at inflated prices just to jack up the share price in the market.

For example, I suspect the M&A value of Nomadic Dairy is significantly higher than its current book value — this value differential could be pretty meaningful to what will be a sub-40 million mkt cap company & likely explains why management's obviously comfortable buying back shares at a premium to the current (under --RRB- stated book value per share.

They've already been buying back shares this year, albeit on a v tentative basis — but for a small Irish company, that's actually quite extraordinary.

Um, Michael, why did we have to wait years to get a new management team if they were the key ingredient to earning a decent return on book (or buying back shares if that couldn't be done)?

Given your belief that Berkshire's intrinsic value continues to exceed its book value with the difference continuing to widen over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2 times book value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?

That makes the dollars spent on buying back shares misleading — the number is simply a compensation expense, not «money returned to shareholders.»

Hoping to see the quarterly dividend move up to around $ 0.54, but they definitely focus more on buying back shares.

STX is currently buying back shares along with increasing significantly their dividend payouts (19 % in 2012).

Company buying back shares.

He was also willing to change his view on buying back shares, setting a line in the sand where he would but back shares, rather than doing a dividend.

«Meanwhile, in order to try to offset the cost of buying back its shares, Dell Computer decided to gamble on its own stock.

Has it been buying back shares at good prices?

Buying back shares — like any other capital allocation decision — only makes sense if the value you're getting exceeds the price you're paying.

The best time to be buying back shares are times like 2008 when Mr. Market was fearful.

But regardless of the accounting treatment in the 90's, these options became very expensive (and cost real cash) when companies began buying back their shares to offset the dilution that these options were causing.

In my view, these programs only make sense under one condition — the company is buying back shares that are significantly undervalued.

BAX is also aggressively buying back shares, amounting to a total of $ 1.5 billion during 2012.

Conflict of interest While it's great for shareholders, buying back shares reduces a company's total equity and decreases management's compensation.

Perhaps Michael Smith will try to thoroughly confuse investors and get them to sell shares too cheap while the company is buying back shares, similar to what John Malone does.

Thus, buying back shares is the most economical way to reinvest cash into its portfolio.

AAPL is the glaring exception, but notice how the other three's stock prices have gone basically nowhere in the last 10 years while their businesses have steadily improved year after year, producing more sales, more free cash flow, high book values, buying back shares, and implementing and growing dividend payouts.

Lowe's has been steadily buying back shares for years and reducing its overall share count.

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

SYLD invests in 100 stocks with market caps greater than $ 200 million that rank among the highest in paying dividends, buying back shares, and paying down debt.

I like buying back shares as long as these companies have steady cash flows.

The company supported its stock price this week by buying back shares and called the selloff «Ridiculous».

But the company made lemonade out of lemons and began buying back shares by the bucketful at low prices.

Buying back shares will never offset the cost of stock options.

IAM is now consistently trading around $ 1.48, offering a 5.4 % yield and buying back shares while I wait for better operating leverage.

They aggressively bought back their own shares ahead of the 2007 stock market peak, slashed their buying during the market slump that followed and now, with stock prices up sharply over the past nine years, they're once again aggressively buying back shares, according to statistics from FactSet.com.

An excellent strategy is to find companies whose shares are very cheap already (like the banking sector) and invest in those companies taking advantage by aggressively buying back shares.

I also like companies that are buying back their shares, making my shares more valuable (high free cash flow often leads to share buybacks).

For instance, look at the situation of the widely held mortgage REIT American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC), which has been aggressively buying back its shares.

Stock buyback refers to publicly traded companies buying back their shares from shareholders.

That is, funds that were once used to enhance dividends are now being deployed toward buying back shares.

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

When you settle your short position by buying back the shares, the margin monies will be release from segregation and the ledger postings to you cash account will be made according to whether you have made a profit or a loss.

I.e. in your example, at what prices should our company cease buying back shares?

This week the folks at Barnes & Noble announced that they'd be buying back the shares of Nook they'd sold over the past several years.

UPDATE: GM has priced $ 4.5 billion of senior unsecured notes, $ 3.2 billion of which will go toward buying back shares from the UAW VEBA.

Better yet, Apple has proved its adeptness at buying back shares opportunistically, spending more when the stock is lower.

In effect, by buying back shares to offset dilution, the irony is that the company was paying for the very shares that they were giving themselves, despite their unwillingness to call it an expense.