At the current valuation, Home Depot could shrink
its share count by an additional 16 % after slashing shares outstanding by roughly 40 % in just the past decade.
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 %.
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.
Nike reduced its outstanding
share count by approximately 14 % over the last decade.
In doing so the company managed to reduce
its share count by almost 30 % between 2008 and 2010.
The holdings back in September decreased their total
share count by less than 1 % on average over the preceding three years.
They are also a company that Charlie Munger would refer to as a cannibal — constantly «eating» away at their own
share count by steadily buying back stock.
The excess bottom - line growth can be explained via share repurchases: Cisco reduced its outstanding
share count by approximately 19 % over the last decade.
On the other hand, Fortis swelled
its share count by a whopping 11.3 % over the last 12 months.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over the last 9 years, JNJ has only reduced
its share count by -5.8 % an annualized rate of -0.67 %.
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.
In the middle of the pack, Rogers, Canadian Oil Sands, and BCE all changed
their share counts by less than 0.1 % over the last year.
Not exact matches
By upping his bid to $ 13.75, plus a special dividend of 13 cents a
share, Michael Dell convinced the board to reverse a rule that said that any non-vote would
count against him.
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.
Both companies haven't released updated user
counts lately, but it's evident that Facebook Live continues to eat up a lion's
share of the livestreaming pie, simply
by being available to a wider range of people.
The bridge story shows that people can
count on you and your company
by sharing specific moments of proof.
Here's what it has to show for its efforts: In the past five years, its total
share count is down
by about one - fifth, and earnings per
share are up 15 %.
While not all of the costs are necessarily borne
by taxpayers — i.e., your employer might pay a
share of your health insurance premiums — many out - of - pocket expenses
count toward the deduction (more on that below).
Women are most likely to move away from education (
by more than 1 percent
share of women's enrollment if
counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.
This number is calculated using the
share counting rules described in Sections 5 (a) and 5 (b) of the 2014 Plan and includes the number of
shares available for new award grants under the 2014 Plan out of the 385 million
shares authorized
by shareholders upon adoption of the 2014 Plan; the number of
shares available for new award grants under the 2003 Employee Stock Plan (the «2003 Plan») on the date that shareholders approved the 2014 Plan; the number of
shares subject to outstanding stock options under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015; and two times the number of
shares subject to outstanding RSUs under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015 (all adjusted for the 7 - for - 1 stock split).
Further, as noted below, any
Shares pledged
by a Board member or Executive Officer will not be
counted when determining whether the Board member or Executive Officer is in compliance with the guidelines.
It is important, therefore, that you provide instructions to your broker if your
shares are held
by a broker so that your vote with respect to these non-routine items is
counted.
[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a
share of worker compensation (which aren't
counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters
by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated
by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.
If the Company delivers 60
shares to the participant and withholds 40
shares to cover tax withholding obligations, 80
shares (the 40 that were withheld multiplied
by two to give effect to the 2:1 premium
share counting rule) would again be available for subsequent awards under the 2014 Plan.
Shares counted toward these guidelines include any shares held by the executive directly or through a broker, shares held through the HP 401 (k) Plan, shares held as restricted stock, shares underlying time - vested RSUs, and shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calcula
Shares counted toward these guidelines include any
shares held by the executive directly or through a broker, shares held through the HP 401 (k) Plan, shares held as restricted stock, shares underlying time - vested RSUs, and shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calcula
shares held
by the executive directly or through a broker,
shares held through the HP 401 (k) Plan, shares held as restricted stock, shares underlying time - vested RSUs, and shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calcula
shares held through the HP 401 (k) Plan,
shares held as restricted stock, shares underlying time - vested RSUs, and shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calcula
shares held as restricted stock,
shares underlying time - vested RSUs, and shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calcula
shares underlying time - vested RSUs, and
shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calcula
shares underlying vested but unexercised stock options (50 % of the in - the - money value of such options is used for this calculation).
It is important, therefore, that you provide instructions to your broker if your
shares are held
by a broker so that your vote with respect to Items 1, 2 and 3 is
counted.
As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person
by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the
shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be
counted toward the number of
shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act
by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.
Given that the rig
count is a barometer for activity levels, it implies that NOW has outperformed its competitors during the downturn, likely
by winning market
share.
And
by the way, from Q3 - 2003 to Q3 - 2014 GG's
share count rose from 183M to 814M, so although its
share price is up
by «only» about 50 %, its market cap is up
by about 580 % over the period in question.
For perspective, the outstanding
share count is down
by over 35 % over the last decade.
Sizable annual buybacks have helped their cause, with the outstanding
share count down
by 27 % over the last 10 years.
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.
If instead we use total expenditures on dividends plus net stock buyback cash plus change in total debt divided
by market capitalization, we don't need to worry about changes in
share count due to stock splits.
This was exasperated recently when I was discussing the case of how most investors misunderstand how it can actually be good over the long - run to change a company's capitalization structure to replace equity with debt
by borrowing funds on a long - term, low - cost, fixed - rate basis to repurchase stock, lowering the total
count of outstanding
shares.
• short term losses (in descending order, greatest loss per
share to least loss per
share) • long term losses (in descending order, greatest to least) • short term no gain or loss • long term no gain or loss • long term gains (in ascending order, least gain per
share to most gain per
share) • short term gains (in ascending order, least to most) • lots with unknown cost in FIFO order (
by acquisition date) and then least
share count order
Essentially, the new rental income generated
by the properties bought with new debt or issued
shares isn't high enough (due to low cash yields on new properties) to offset the greater
share count, which raises the cost of the dividend.
It is therefore important that you provide instructions to your broker if your
shares are held
by a broker so that your vote with respect to Directors is
counted.
And Podhoretz is not alone: I know from personal experience that many Jewish neocons, however bemused they may be
by styles of evangelical piety» a bemusement, I might add,
shared by a number of non «evangelical Christians» still have no problem
counting Christian conservatives as staunch cultural and political allies.
Concerning these he said, «I
count everything sheer loss, because all is far outweighed
by the gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I did in fact lose everything... All I care for is to know Christ, to experience the power of his resurrection, and to
share his sufferings, in growing conformity with his death, if only I may finally arrive at the resurrection from the dead.
The Jewish - Christian dialogue of the last thirty years, in which some of us have been strongly engaged, must be
counted as an enormous blessing that is unprecedented in the two thousand years of tortured history
shared by Jews and Christians.
Jabrill Peppers, who is preparing for the NFL Draft,
shared the following about being
counted out
by people: I've been...
Welcome to Animal Adventure week of the Virtual Book Club — today we're
sharing a craft activity to go with the book One Gorilla: A
counting book
by Anthony Browne.
Any past efforts at
sharing services that could be
counted toward the rebate program would be judged
by the state Division of Budget.
In the Senate, even he is tainted
by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box
count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership
sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.
The Tories didn't increase their
count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote
share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap
by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote
share also rising.
Labour and the Conservatives, supported
by the London - based media, have long behaved as if they were the only players that
counted, even though their
share of the vote has declined since 1974 (despite a few spikes upwards in the 1980s) and now stands roughly at 65 %.