Sentences with phrase «by stock buybacks»

The telecom company continued to show solid share - net growth in the December quarter, supported by stock buybacks, good cost management, wireless margin improvement, and increased penetration of U-verse, its broadband, video, and IP telephone service.

Not exact matches

United has tried to placate shareholders, recently doubling its forecast for stock buybacks in the first quarter to $ 1.5 billion, and expanding its board by three new directors last Monday.

Porat won more investor goodwill in October 2015 by announcing a $ 5.1 billion stock buyback.

The math on stock buybacks is pretty simple: by repurchasing your own company's stock in the market you reduce the number of shares outstanding, thereby increasing your earnings per share by cutting your denominator (earnings per share is calculated by dividing income by shares outstanding).

According to research by HSBC, buybacks have been the largest source of net demand for the stock market since 2009.

Buyback proponents say they reward these long - term shareholders by effectively increasing their ownership of the company, and they help boost the value of a stock by raising the company's earnings per share.

«There's no question that by far corporate buyback have been the source of most of the buying in the stock market,» Sonders told Business Insider on Wednesday.

The company also approved a new $ 40 billion share buyback program, reaffirming it's on track to complete its current $ 40 billion stock repurchase program by December 31.

GM's stock has dropped by 19 % despite an announced $ 9 billion of share buybacks.

Buoyed by an unquenchable thirst for short - term stock gains, traders and activist investors are mounting pressure on a wide array of companies to cut research and capital expenditures in order to increase stock buybacks and thus boost stock prices.

Analysts typically measure whether companies beat or missed their earnings based on earnings per share, which can be manipulated by corporate stock buybacks.

Meanwhile, the automaker increased its stock buyback program by $ 4 billion, bringing it to a total of $ 9 billion.

The bank's profits dropped 3.1 %, to $ 5.4 billion from $ 5.6 billion, with that difference in net income due to legal expenses, debt charges and $ 15 billion in stock buybacks that reduced the bank's outstanding shares by 4 %.

By providing a lift to a stock's price, buybacks can increase total shareholder return to target levels, resulting in more stock awards for executives.

If management wanted to, they could take advantage of OCLR's cheap stock price by enacting a significant buyback program.

Lately, the sheer volume of buybacks has prompted complaints among academics, politicians and investors that massive stock repurchases are stifling innovation and hurting U.S. competitiveness — and contributing to widening income inequality by rewarding executives with ever higher pay, often divorced from a company's underlying performance.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

The road to outstanding stock price performance has been paved by multiple earnings surprises, share buyback announcements, stimulating monetary conditions, economic growth and lifted investor sentiment.

Since then, the stock has risen by 27 % on the back of strong earnings and a $ 10 million buyback announcement.

Share buybacks are positive for reported earnings per share, but this is partially offset by the growing popularity of granting stock options to executives in lieu of cash bonuses.

If instead we use total expenditures on dividends plus net stock buyback cash plus change in total debt divided by market capitalization, we don't need to worry about changes in share count due to stock splits.

The book is a series of case studies that describes how a small number of CEOs have used cash generative businesses as platforms to drive massive returns for shareholders by directing excess cash opportunistically between large stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions of other businesses.

As for stock buybacks, more than $ 136 billion was repurchased by S&P 500 companies in the fourth quarter, an increase of 5.2 percent year - over-year.

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.

-- Buybacks, which boost stock prices by making shares scarcer, have exploded in 2018 thanks to the huge windfall created by President Trump's new tax law.

Keeping to that promise, Qualcomm raised its dividend by 14 % on Monday and announced a new $ 10 billion stock buyback.

The reform package's rule regarding the repatriation of overseas cash could benefit investors by leading to rising dividends and stock buybacks, they said.

All stocks are held in the expectation that they will eventually return money to whoever is holding the shares at the time, by one or more of the following mechanisms: Paying dividends Share buybacks, where the company buys out some of its own shares (in some ways this is quite similar to paying a dividend, but often has different tax implications) A...

The net payout yield goal for the strategy is 8 %, defined by the amount a company spends on stock buybacks and dividends as a percentage of its stock price (adjusted for the amount a company receives for issuing new stock).

The company sees that the stock is attractively valued and has decided to take advantage of that by announcing the acceleration of share buybacks.

The simple answer in my opinion is lack of alternatives, especially for long - term investors such as endowment and pension funds, which has created a surge in demand for stocks at the same time that the supply of stocks is dwindling due to the aggressive buyback programs instituted by corporations in recent years.

A good place to start is this list of the best stocks for total shareholder return (dividends plus buybacks) which was prepared by Goldman Sachs, and some of the returns on this list are pretty impressive.

One explanation: Buybacks are driven less by companies» belief that their shares are undervalued and more by a desire to offset the dilution caused by employees exercising stock options.

There are comparative advantages and disadvantages for dividends and buybacks, which are never discussed by G&D, because they only mention the stock buyback alternative as it relates to stock options for management.

There is no discussion by G&D of stock buybacks as a method of enhancing a common stock's market price over the long run, giving the management the flexibility to retain cash in troubled times, and also increasing the percentage ownership interest of each non-selling stockholder.

Price has a stock buyback program, but its beneficial effects are muted by its heavy use of share options as compensation and bonuses.

A large portion of stock buybacks only sop up new shares issued by the company to employees exercising stock options.

The share buyback to repurchase $ 2M of its stock will increase the per share liquidation value by around 6 % to $ 1.64.

The impact of a $ 2M stock buyback at Friday's closing price is to increase per share liquidation value by around 6 % to $ 1.64 and leaves the company with $ 26.3 M in cash and short term investments.

Analyze the use of cash flow by management, to avoid companies that invest or buy back their stock when it dilutes value, and purchase those that enhance value through intelligent buybacks and investment.

The Underlying Index, created by Dhandho, utilizes a proprietary, rules - based methodology to select approximately 100 U.S. equity securities, master limited partnerships («MLPs») and American depositary receipts listed on the NYSE, NYSE Arca and the NASDAQ Stock Market from three categories of issuers: Share Buybacks, Select Value Manager Holdings, and Spin - Offs.

The buyback program is hampered by their listing apparently — where on A'dam stock exchange you can only buy back x % of daily volume — which is naturally low.

In my mind, the stock was completely neglected, the far higher NAV was also being ignored by investors, and there was a fair chance further share buybacks might actually prompt investor selling, based on an increasing inside ownership stake.

-- to buyback shares to cover up the consequences of their previous poor decisions and / or prop up a sagging stock price (perhaps now targeted by short sellers).

Outerwall hasn't been liquidating itself through buybacks — instead it has leveraged the balance sheet by issuing large amounts of debt, using the proceeds to buy back stock, which has reduced the share count, but not the size of the balance sheet or the amount of capital employed.

Most of the people here are talking about buying an index fund or funds, so there's no real way that stock buybacks by individual companies are going to be a very useful indicator of much of anything in that context.

Another demonstration of poor capital allocation by management is its stock buyback history.

If the buyback had been completed at the current stock price, the company's per share liquidation value would have increased by around 17 % to $ 6.72.

A blog by Todd Wenning about dividend stocks, portfolio management, behavioral finance, buybacks, and a patient approach to investing.

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Monster Beverage Corp is the # 43 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity.