Sentences with phrase «of returning cash to shareholders»

It is a lower risk way to play mobile growth and expansion into emerging markets and its policy of returning cash to shareholders is a further positive.

Have you ever heard of returning cash to shareholders via stock buybacks?

I have been looking at various Chinese small caps, but in most cases I'm thinking that I simply like DSWL more because it's profitable, the balance sheet is rock solid and the company has a long history of returning cash to shareholders.

A good Score (i.e., value of 1) is assigned if the current ratio exceeds two, or net current assets exceed long - term debt, or 10 - year history of positive earnings, or 10 - year history of returning cash to shareholders or EPS are at least a third higher than they were 10 years ago.

While some defend the buyback practice as a method of returning cash to shareholders, others, including my colleague Larry Fink, have argued that some companies today are focusing on maximizing short - term shareholder value at the expense of investing in the future.

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

Not exact matches

Apple said it will increase the program by returning $ 200 billion in cash to its shareholder by the end of March 2017.

Wolters Kluwer's stock price has doubled since she took charge a decade ago, and the firm has returned half of its cash to shareholders in 2015 in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

The percentage of respondents who said companies should repair their balance sheets is now on par with the percentage who said companies should return to cash to shareholders.

In a note, analyst Michael Senno wrote that «as an owner of sports cable networks and teams, we believe that MSG is well positioned to capitalize on the increasing value of premium sports content, which should result in AOCF and free cash flow growth above its peers and, combined with incremental leverage, lead to solid shareholder returns.»

Here's some more color on returning cash to shareholders from Butters» note: «Share repurchase programs have become a very popular way of returning capital to shareholders over the years.

«While the company faces a number of significant challenges, including the continued rise of Amazon and Google, its high margin and large sales figures enable the company to generate significant free cash flow, which it increasingly returns to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.»

Michael Ferro may want his shareholders to have faith in his vision of returning Tribune Publishing to some kind of halcyon time when newspapers ruled the media world and spun off millions in cash flow with virtually no effort.

Instead, it has concentrated on returning cash to shareholders through buybacks and dividends; earnings per share have risen nearly 40 % since the last quarter of 2014, while the quarterly dividend is up 43 %.

Today, Apple got credit for its bountiful buyback plans, but there are tons of other companies returning huge slugs of cash to their shareholders and I think you'll miss out if you ignore them,» the «Mad Money» host concluded.

Apple shares turned lower in the after - hours after earnings beat and the firm doubled the amount of cash it will return to shareholders.

Metro gets a percentage of sales from every location, so it generates a lot of free cash flow, which it then returns to shareholders in the form of 1.53 % yield and share buybacks.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

Still, given the size of the technology opportunities the company sees and the heightened level of competition, Apple's board says it's important to continue taking a measured approach to returning any cash to shareholders.

For instance, a percentage of GE executive bonuses depend on the company returning a certain amount of cash to shareholders.

The company, which has a longstanding policy of paying out 70 - 80 % of its cash flow per share as dividends, returns over $ 5 billion to shareholders each year in the form of dividends.

In March, Qualcomm Inc, under pressure from hedge fund Jana Partners, agreed to boost its program to purchase $ 10 billion of its shares over the next 12 months; the company already had an existing $ 7.8 billion buyback program and a commitment to return three quarters of its free cash flow to shareholders.

Dividends and share repurchases must be funded by domestic cash, and the Company has returned to shareholders or invested all of the domestic cash generated by its business and raised through the issuance of debt since the beginning of the program.

Let's further assume that the Nikkei companies in the aggregate have a net cash balance equal to 30 % of market capitalization and decide to return all the net cash to shareholders as a special dividend, the implied P / E multiple for the Nikkei would drop from 8x to 5x.

If shareholders start demanding that more drillers use their cash to grow returns instead of production, it could be just the thing the industry needs to prevent drilling itself into another hole by causing OPEC to fight back again.

And with a payout ratio of 47.8 %, you're looking at what's basically a «perfect balance» between retaining earnings for company growth and returning cash to shareholders.

The company maintains a fairly high payout ratio as it returns much of its cash flows to shareholders in the form of dividends.

As one of the most diversified healthcare companies with 12 megabrands, including Johnson's, Band - Aid, and Neutrogena, that are sold across 60 countries, J&J looks well poised to grow earnings, cash flows, and shareholder returns for years to come.

The global reflation trade is in full swing, the return of cash flow to shareholders is at a record pace and that is why, in my opinion, the U.S. equity markets are set to extend the current rally well into 2019.

When investors ignore these often - significant minority interests, like in the case of KMI, they are not getting the full picture of a company's cash available to be returned to shareholders.

The decision to use stock instead of cash can also affect shareholder returns.

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.

In both cases, TI allocated about 160 % of its incoming cash flows to shareholder cash returns, dipping into its cash reserves to keep the payouts and buybacks rolling.

Through the team's relentless execution of our plan in the first quarter, we grew revenue, expanded EBITDA margins, produced over 30 % growth in earnings and free cash flow per share and returned essentially all of our free cash flow to shareholders.

The value of a company is simply the present value of the cash flows it is going to return to shareholders over its lifetime.

Rio, which delivered almost $ 10 - billion of cash returns to shareholders in 2017, could improve on that as cash builds.

That's business as usual for Texas Instruments, which aims to return essentially 100 % of its free cash flows directly to shareholders.

«2014 was a great year for Marriott Vacations Worldwide, with adjusted EBITDA of $ 200 million, adjusted free cash flow of nearly $ 300 million and over $ 210 million of capital returned to our shareholders.

Stronger iPhone prices and hints by Apple Inc on Thursday that it could return more than half of its $ 285 billion in cash to shareholders eased concerns among investors, even as the world's biggest technology company gave a disappointing revenue outlook for the current quarter.

Return of Capital On October 14, 2014, the company's Board of Directors authorized a cash dividend program under which it intends to pay a regular quarterly dividend, and declared a quarterly dividend of $ 0.25 per share payable on November 12, 2014 to shareholders of record as of October 28, 2014.

To be explicit on this: when the earnings yield (the inverse of a P / E ratio) is higher than the return on cash, it is beneficial to shareholders in increasing EPTo be explicit on this: when the earnings yield (the inverse of a P / E ratio) is higher than the return on cash, it is beneficial to shareholders in increasing EPto shareholders in increasing EPS.

But the interesting thing is that in the eyes of many investors, Apple's quarterly iPhone sales numbers seem to matter less now than they have for years — at least relative to how much cash Apple is generating and returning to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.

Return of Capital During the quarter, the company returned over $ 28 million in cash to its shareholders, including $ 16.5 million through share repurchases and $ 11.5 million in dividends.

At the same time, all 3 are focused on returning cash to shareholders in the form of dividends.

Some of these factors include above average earnings per - share growth rates, above average return on equity, excess free cash flow, low debt - to - equity ratios, and shareholder friendly management.

The value of a company is simply the present value of the cash flows it is going to return to shareholders over its lifetime.

A dividend stock that shows virtually no growth (think utilities) and returns close to 100 % of its cash flows to shareholders is more like a bond than a growth stock.

The management has wisely bought back shares of the stock at severely depressed levels, and doesn't seem to get too carried away with regular buybacks, preferring to return excess cash to shareholders in the form of special dividends (much preferred to buybacks).

We've been following AVGN (see earlier posts here and here) because it's a net cash stock (i.e. it's trading at less than the value of its cash after deducting all liabilities) and it has a specialist biotechnology activist fund Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) pushing it to liquidate and return its cash to shareholders.

In one similar situation, the company could have returned in excess of $ 10 / share in cash to shareholders had it been liquidated in 2005.