Sentences with phrase «returning cash to shareholders by»

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

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

Cash and cash equivalents were $ 2 billion versus $ 2.7 billion a year ago, with the reduction largely driven by our commitment to return cash to shareholders and invest in strategic opportunitCash and cash equivalents were $ 2 billion versus $ 2.7 billion a year ago, with the reduction largely driven by our commitment to return cash to shareholders and invest in strategic opportunitcash equivalents were $ 2 billion versus $ 2.7 billion a year ago, with the reduction largely driven by our commitment to return cash to shareholders and invest in strategic opportunitcash to shareholders and invest in strategic opportunities.

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.

We have increased our dividends by 100 % over the last 3 years, which speaks to the consistent cash flow we generate and our intent to return more capital to shareholders through dividends.

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.

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.

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.

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

He also sees opportunities in these sectors for capital allocation that can enhance shareholder returns, either by using excess free cash flow to buy back stock, or acquire competitors and operate the combined company more efficiently.

There is much debate about whether companies should increase shareholder value by repurchasing their shares or returning excess cash to shareholders by way of dividends.

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.

A multiple of the cash flow reduction experienced by Reading's theater over this PAST year (that is lower EBITDA which RDI shareholders have already «suffered» from) is to be returned to Reading in the form of forgiveness on the seller note.

Dividend payout ratio is the method by which you can know what portion of net income a company is returning to its shareholders, and how much retaining for growth, debt pay off and cash reserve.

Otherwise they should return the excess cash from their operations to their shareholders to allow them to maximize their returns by reinvesting in other companies that have profitable projects.

Time for a step - change... Overall, it's a pretty stable core business, so management needs to start milking it for cash to return to shareholders (via dividends / buy - backs), or else accelerate growth by ramping up its leverage & acquisition pipeline / spending (more acquisitions, bigger acquisitions, or both...)-- at this point, I'd still prefer a bet on the latter.

Assuming a base case of about $ 5.5 billion in free cash flow and 3 % annual growth, Home Depot stands to reward shareholders with roughly 8.5 % returns in the long haul — not outstanding by any measure, but its results are likely more reliable than your average ticker symbol.

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.

Outerwall has historically produced high returns on capital, and it's a business that doesn't need much tangible capital to produce huge amounts of cash flow (an attractive business), but it has been run similar to companies that get purchased by private equity firms — leverage up the balance sheet, issue a dividend (or buyout some shareholders), thus keeping very little equity «at risk».

In my view the highest priority is return of cash to shareholders, by one means or another.