Sentences with phrase «destroying shareholder wealth»

However, companies will often do anything to stimulate their EPS growth, even it means destroying shareholder wealth through share buybacks.

This is where the theory and reality diverge: The majority of companies that don't pay out a significant portion of cash flows in dividends (or stock buybacks, though I place more value on dividends, as stock buybacks could be postponed) more often than not end up destroying shareholder wealth in empire - building acquisitions or marginal capital investments (if they had better investments to begin with they would spend cash right away).

Rakuten's push into mobile under boss Hiroshi Mikitani will destroy shareholder wealth and shows up another supine Japanese board, argues investor Kisalaya Singh.