Sentences with phrase «returning cash to shareholders through»

Despite the strong start, concern remains among retail investors and portfolio managers that chief financial officers remain too fixated on returning cash to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends.

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 %.

General Motors recently responded to an activist group with a plan to return cash to shareholders through share repurchase, and Lear had previously undertaken this action.

Not exact matches

Lance was not alone among the oil CEOs looking to attract investors back to the spurned sector, with Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden saying Shell and the industry are working to achieve better shareholder returns through strong free cash flow and lower debt.

We used this cash to further reduce net debt and increase returns to shareholders through higher dividends,» Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie said in a statement.

Over the last five years, Apple has returned $ 233 billion in cash to shareholders through buybacks and dividends.

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.

final quarter Apple CFO Luca Maestri mentioned the business expected to be «internet cash impartial» over time, signaling that it may beginning returning extra capital to shareholders through its dividend and share buyback courses.

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.

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.

During the quarter, the Company returned $ 21.0 million in cash to its shareholders, including $ 11.0 million in dividends and $ 10.0 million through share repurchases.

Is that a good value for shareholders, maybe not if a company burns through all it's cash only to have the share price return to normalcy.

All very well, I confess I've been through all that myself professionally, but always felt frustrated at having giant hoards of Cash on hand to invest — in an ideal world, I knew the best thing for shareholders and Return on Equity was to have zero Cash and just come in each day and draw down / pay down on a Debt / CP facility.

The strong growth and cash flow from Humira, the continued development of their drug pipeline, and management's commitment to returning capital to shareholders through dividends has increased our estimate of fair value for the company and changed our holding period from one year to multiple years.

Generally, companies would aim to sustain a dividend cover of at least 2 times in order to avail adequate financing through retained earnings while providing a reasonable cash return on shareholder's investment.

Companies continue to increase their shareholders» returns through buybacks and cash dividends.

Why don't they return the cash to shareholders (either through 1x special divvy or buyback)?

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

The company generated $ 13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned about $ 21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.