Sentences with phrase «company reduced its share count»

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The tech company has also returned an additional $ 151 billion to shareholders since its fiscal year 2013 in the form of share buybacks — a move that has reduced share count and boosted earnings per share by about 21 % in the past four years, according to Silverblatt.

Never mind that because of aggressive stock buybacks that reduced the company's share count, Microsoft's market cap is $ 460 billion, far below the old peak.

As of [Tuesday] night, 92 companies in the S&P have reported Q2 earnings; 20 have reduced their share count by at least 4 % year - over-year.

The Company is reducing these annual limits to 1,000,000 shares in the 2014 Plan (counting the shares for stock grants and restricted stock units on a 1 - for - 1 basis for this purpose).

By borrowing money at less than 4 % and repurchasing shares that the company pays 5 % on, it is increasing current cash flows while simultaneously reducing share count.

Twelve of our companies, just over 20 % of our holdings, used their cash flow to achieve all four goals: they increased the dividend, reduced the share count, made an acquisition and still ended the year with a stronger balance sheet.

I have a «cannibal» screen (Charlie Munger's term for buybacks) that looks for companies that have been steadily and significantly reducing their share count over the last 10 years.

On the top side, and I did not see any of these, be aware of reverse splits, which can reduce the share count, are a sign of a badly run company, but do nothing for the economics of a firm, aside from keeping them listed on a major exchange.

The company has reduced its share count by about 10 % per year for the past three years while also raising its dividend by nearly 20 % per year.

That should give one pause before investing in the stock of a company that subjects itself to a split aimed at reducing the share count and raising the stock price.

In the above scenario, if those 100,000 shares outstanding that initially traded at $ 10 per share fell to $ 2 per share, and the company wanted to restore the price of the stock, it might issue a 1:5 reverse stock split in which the share count of the business would be reduced to 20,000 shares outstanding that trade at a price of $ 20 per share.

The First Asset Canadian Buyback Index ETF (TSX: FBE) «provides investors with exposure to a portfolio of equity securities of quality companies with active share buyback programs that have significantly and consistently reduced their issued and outstanding share count.»

In doing so the company managed to reduce its share count by almost 30 % between 2008 and 2010.

Dr. Singleton started buying up his company's own shares and from 1972 to 1984 he tendered eight times and reduced his share count by some 90 %.