Over the next three years, B of
A only bought back 500 million shares, or around 5 % of the float.
In Virginia, a teacher is charged a multiplier of her current annual salary for service credit; the ex-Maryland teacher can
only buy back two years of service for a total
The research is clear: Investors should seek the rare companies with a manager like Henry Singleton — described by Warren Buffett as having «the best operating and capital deployment record in American business» — at the helm, who
only buy back shares at trough valuations, are miserly with options, and only issue shares when the share price exceeds the stock's intrinsic value.
Only buy them back when they have the best potential for gains.
Others point out that management
only buys back enough shares to offset stock option grants.
Hedge fund investing aims to buy good stocks and sell bad stocks «short» (that means borrowing bad stocks, selling them, and
only buying them back to repay the loan after prices have dropped) in hopes of making money regardless of the market's direction.
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.
The great Buffett after announcing his buyback
only bought back 0.03 % of all shares so far.
Managements that buy back stock should have a firm handle on the value drivers, such that
they only buy back stock at a discount to the firm's private market value.
Not exact matches
Only about 1 percent of merchandise is returned — a very low rate for e-retailers — and about 20 percent of customers say they are likely to come
back to
buy additional products.
«We've not
only heard of overnight dip -
buying from real money in 10s and 30s, but the Ministry of Finance data confirms that Japanese
buying is
back,» wrote Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. rates strategy at BMO Capital Markets.
He
bought it from a college kid way
back in 1997, paying $ 42,000, even though the kid had snagged it for
only $ 5,000 the week before.
Waste Management CEO Jim Fish disputes the narrative that major companies are
only using corporate tax cut benefits to
buy back stock.
Fiverr, for example, is a common site that people
buy links on because it can
only cost $ 5 for hundreds of links pointing
back to your website.
He had sold a stake in Kind in 2008 to the private equity firm VMG,
only to
buy it
back in 2014.
The Fed raised short - term rates last month for
only the second time since the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, when it slashed rates to near zero and began
buying massive amounts of Treasuries and mortgage -
backed securities to push down long - term borrowing costs.
As AP reports, Almarai is by no means the
only company taking advantage of favorable legislation in the U.S. Companies from the UAE, China, and Japan, have also jumped on this bandwagon,
buying up farmland in the U.S. and elsewhere and then exporting the crops
back home.
Once I saw the property values starting to bounce
back I jumped and
bought my condo with
only 5 % down with a small PMI (private mortgage insurance) premium of $ 61 / month to be able to
buy my apartment.
Despite the fact that Disney did not cut its earnings forecasts, despite the fact that cable subscriptions are
only a small portion of Disney's otherwise great businesses and despite the fact the company is
buying back stock hand over fist, the markets have still chosen to abandon Disney.
However, those who
bought «runaway» new issues
only to see them fall steadily
back toward their original price know the pain of overpaying for new issues.
At that time,
only the small buyers and the Canadians were
buying silver, and then it was all left to collapse
back to about $ 3 an ounce.
In 2015, CSCO
bought back 155 million shares, but after the effects of employee stock compensation it
only reduced the total shares outstanding by 38 million.
But perhaps our favorite story came from one buyer to whom bitcoin not
only gave
back time — the bitcoin payment cleared in one hour instead of the several days for a traditional bank transfer — but also enough money to
buy a new sportscar.
The price of being tactical are the inevitable false positives, where you sell
only to
buy back in at higher prices.
And among the approximately 1,000 firms that
buy back shares and report R&D spending, the proportion of net income spent on innovation has averaged less than 50 percent since 2009, increasing to 56 percent
only in the most recent year as net income fell.
Too often, entrepreneurs go on a feature death march
only to bring the new feature
back to the prospect and have them still say «no» and ask for another, different feature or outright say they won't
buy it.
In my view, these programs
only make sense under one condition — the company is
buying back shares that are significantly under - valued.
The
only comparison I can remember is the dot - com days
back in late 1999 - 2000... you don't want to aggressively
buy stocks now.
Buying back stock should
only be considered when we either can not invest (sometimes that's a function of regulatory policies) or when we are generating excess, unusable capital.»
It is greatly dispiriting to see companies repeatedly
buying back their shares as the cycle peaks,
only to raise fresh capital at the trough.
Since they have an enormous holding supply, this would
only make the price go down unless they choose to
buy XRP tokens
back, which they haven't shown any intentions to do.
If a company
buys back shares
only to award them to executives, the share count doesn't decline.
In fact, on six occasions the Dow got very close to 1,000
only to fall
back near 800 — a level that would have been great for
buying.
Under the Fed's now - concluded QE program, the bank
only bought U.S. treasuries and Fannie and Freddie mortgage -
backed securities («agency MBS»).
And therefore, those are the sorts of concerns, clearly as bond investors we have to have in the
back of our mind because while we're still very much supported by central banks continuing to
buy government bonds, the Fed [US Federal Reserve] has announced that it is beginning now to not
only end the taper, that ended some time ago, they are potentially selling bonds
back into the market.
But if we get to the point where we are
back to zero - interest rates or worse, negative interest rates, the next logical step for central bankers is the eradication of cash and controlling our
buying which can
only really be done electronically with this emerging cryptocurrency technology.
If people can't afford houses, investors will
buy them and turn them into overpriced rentals, and people will rent them, even if it means cutting
back drastically on other things, because you have to have a place to live, and when houses are too expensive, your
only option is to rent.
There is evidence in specific cases that
buying back stock at high prices destroys value, but what high prices are is often
only know in hindsight.
Logistically speaking, management
only gets to use $ 0.23 on the dollar to
buy back stock, pay down debt, and grow the company so that it can make even larger dividend payments in the future.
Companies not
only began using cash to
buy back common stock of their own company, they began using cash to
buy call options of the common stock of their own company!
Once the growth trajectory is affirmed with EPS moving in lock - step, the stock
only becomes cheaper and thus this pull -
back could be a rare
buying opportunity prior to the stock breaking through the $ 200 barrie...
Each side sends out as many gullible followers as they can find or
buy and they send them to an agreed upon place where they bash eachothers heads in and stab at eachother with spears and arrows and eventually
only a few survivors will wander
back to their masters covered in blood and wounds and claim Truth for their side, since whichever side won was obviously God's chosen ones...
Its
only your land until your gub «mint comes and takes it
back because you did nt pay your debt to
buy it.
Oh the joy if
only we could go
back to the early 1800's where a good honest white land owner could head to town any Saturday and
buy a whole new pack of n e gros to take home so he could help with the building of his new Church... And don't forget ladies, you are meant to be seen, not heard, and don't you dare be so immoral as to let your ankle show... Now get
back in the kitchen!!
Yet more importantly is the fact that God gave his
only begotten Son as a sacrifice to
buy back man from the inherited Adamic sin so that all those calling on the name of God would be saved.
Once I
bought a package of Swiss Miss,
only to dump the mug after one sip and the box was banished to the
back of my cupboard, never to be heard from again.
Not
only can customers
buy a Western Bacon Cheeseburger and fries to go without using cash, they can get cash
back out of their account.
I need to add photos
back into this post, but I used this stir fry sauce —
buy it if you can find it — it's
only 5 calories a tablespoon!
Growth also looks set to continue in this segment, with 27 % of adults expecting to
buy more of these products in 2012 and
only 12 % to cut
back.
I have looked for places to
buy vegan white chocolate,
only found some at Amazon, but in such hilariously large amounts (and so spendy, I wouldn't be able to afford any other food for a few months It will be fun to make it and will report
back!