Sentences with phrase «return cash to shareholders as»

In recent decades, share buybacks have overtaken dividends as a preferred way to return cash to shareholders as there is more preferential tax treatment.

... to exercise its fiduciary duty to shareholders by winding up NTII in order to return cash to shareholders as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Not exact matches

Now share buybacks aren't necessarily a bad thing, and in fact are Warren Buffett's preferred method for returning cash to shareholders — as opposed to dividends — because they give management more flexibility.

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.»

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

(Reuters)- Murphy Oil Corp (MUR.N) said it will spin off its smaller retail gasoline business in the United States, review options for other assets, pay a special dividend and buy back shares as it seeks to return more cash to shareholders.

Assets such as excess cash, discontinued operations, and unconsolidated subsidiaries are added to our DCF value as they represent cash that can be returned to shareholders in the future.

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.

We generate cash flow that we deploy to returning to shareholders as well as investing in businesses, doing strategic acquisitions.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

If these companies have capital to allocate, and can't reinvest it attractively in the business, make sensible acquisitions with it or pay down debt, they have to either keep it around as cash equivalents or return it to shareholders.

Back in the mid-90's, ROIC - based models such as Economic Value Added (EVA) and Cash Flow Return On Investment (CFROI) were all the rage, with corporate giants such as Coca - Cola (KO), AT&T (T), and Procter & Gamble (PG) linking them to executive compensation and highlighting them in communications with shareholders.

The finding appears to extend to the macroeconomic level as well — shareholders in the larger economy got a much bigger bang for their buck when cash was returned to them as dividends than when it was deployed into capital expenditure.

Areas where corporations have put this cash to work include: continued dividend increases and share buybacks, which return capital back to shareholders; ongoing investment and capital expenditures as well as research and development; and increasing productivity and lowering cost structures.

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Only a few days after Apple announced that it is planning to return as much as $ 100 billion of its cash mountain to shareholders via buybacks, throughout the Q&A session with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett and Charlie Munger answered several questions on the topic of why attracted them to Apple in the first place.

As these assets are digested, Apache will be in position to return more cash flow to shareholders.

Sure, there are other ways to generate cash flow to shareholders (such as return of capital) but dividend stocks provide predictable, consistent cash flows to patient investors.

Like Allstate, they are oozing free cash flow in this environment, and don't have as many reinvestment opportunities; they ought to be returning cash to shareholders, but cautiously, buying only on dips.

I'm not counting share repurchases as cash returned to shareholders as, you will note, the share count, despite the substantial repurchases, is up slightly.

In fact I think I was lucky that the shares «only» declined 48 % and that's due the fact that the two large investors have taken an activist role to make sure that most of the remaining cash is returned to shareholder; without them the cash would have probably been «re-invested» by management to keep the company alive (and thus feeding management their salaries) as long as possible.

In other words don't count on that cash being returned to shareholders or even invested in passive investments (private or public equity) for the benefit of shareholders; A liquidation valuation really isn't of interest here as Glassbridge is set to be an ongoing business and I can see an operating cash bleed for 3 - 5 years depending on how long it takes the company to attract enough AUM to cover operating (read staffing) costs.

As a practical matter, cash - on - hand was returned to shareholders and the remainder of the fund's assets were placed in a trust.

If these companies have capital to allocate, and can't reinvest it attractively in the business, make sensible acquisitions with it or pay down debt, they have to either keep it around as cash equivalents or return it to shareholders.

As it stands, KGP / shareholders effectively earn nothing from this cash — but if this cash, for example, were returned tomorrow morning to shareholders, there's no reason to believe that would negatively affect Kingspan's P / S multiple (or its financial strength), and shareholders would have an additional 212 M cash to re-invest (or invest elsewhere).

When shareholders invest in a listed asset manager, they simply want: a) exposure to the asset management business, and b) surplus cash to be distributed, thereby enhancing returns & granting each shareholder the freedom to manage this cash directly, as they see fit.

Finally you should discount all Zamano's intangibles to 0 and give up any hope of extracting any cash from them before they return capital to shareholders — goodwill makes up the majority of their intangibles which can not be sold on and internally generated development costs, which arguably have no place on the balance sheet, will also find no willing buyer as they are specific to Zamano and can not be easily transferred.

The most frequently used measure — dividend payout ratio, which is calculated as dividend per share divided by earnings per share — shows what percentage of its profit a company is returning to its shareholders in the form of cash dividends.

«As you can see, my holdings are dominated by foreign stocks, portfolios that can and do have the ability to tactically move to cash (and have a high exposure to real assets), and stocks that are shareholder - friendly and returning lots of cash to investors.

«With the help of our outside advisors, we will carefully consider this expressed interest in a cash return, within the process of evaluating a range of alternatives, understanding that our goal is, as always, to provide enhanced value to all of our shareholders.»

Management decided to return cash to shareholders, as many other tech companies did, through both dividends and share repurchases.

February marked a great start of the year for dividend growth investors as companies lay out the financial plans for the year and start returning more cash to shareholders.

This, combined with our focus on working capital management and the cash generative nature of our business, means we have the potential to generate meaningful shareholder returns as our business grows.