Sentences with phrase «reduced their share count by»

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.

Over the last 9 years, JNJ has only reduced its share count by -5.8 % an annualized rate of -0.67 %.

And then, between 2008 and 2011, when the stock got cheap again with a P / E ratio in the mid teens, Schnatter reduced the share count by 20 million — taking it from 65 million to 45 million.

Add to that a share repurchase program that has reduced share count by over 3 % in the last year, and suddenly Apple looks a lot more lucrative to conservative investors.

Management has a long track record of disciplined capital allocation, having reduced the share count by nearly one - third over the past decade, and it recently initiated a fairly generous dividend.

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.

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

Finally, during the last week of the quarter I cut back my exposure to AIG and BAC, reducing share count by 10 % and 20 % respectively, and initiated a small hedge using SPY puts.

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 %.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

While none can completely escape the issue of market timing, they can certainly address the most critical aspect: ensuring that share buybacks do indeed return capital to shareholders by reducing share count.

By doing the reverse split, they are reducing the share count to 456 shares.

The excess bottom - line growth can be explained via share repurchases: Cisco reduced its outstanding share count by approximately 19 % over the last decade.

Meanwhile, the bottom - line growth over this period was much better, thanks largely to a reduced outstanding share count — down by almost 20 % over the last decade.

In working out strategies for people with very large option profits, I've found that many of them can actually reduce their tax cost by making disqualifying dispositions before the end of 2012, at least if we don't count the potential benefit of having a large unused AMT credit after selling their shares.

Nike reduced its outstanding share count by approximately 14 % over the last decade.

The share count has been reduced by a total of 4.0 M over that time.

With the outstanding share count reduced by 7.8 %, the buyback provides an 8.3 % increase in EPS.

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.