The following chart shows how much money McDonald's spent on dividends and net
share repurchases between 2004 and 2011.
P&G aims to shell out $ 7.5 billion on dividends in fiscal 2018, and plans to return nearly $ 70 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and
share repurchases between fiscal years 2016 and 2019.
Firms that completed
share repurchases between 2002 and 2006, however, have not generated any better returns since that time than those who did not.
Not exact matches
Between 1984 and 1993, Coca - Cola acquired 570 million
shares of its own stock through its stock
repurchase program, reducing the
shares outstanding from 3.174 billion to 2.604 billion.
We also ask you to help us convince the board that this is not a choice
between investing in growth and
share repurchases.
In all, America's financial sector
repurchased $ 207 billion of
shares between 2006 and 2008.
The Wall Street Journal also recently cited data that S&P 500 companies are
repurchasing shares at a rate of roughly $ 125 billion a quarter this year, which is the lowest level since 2012 and down from an average of $ 142 billion a quarter
between 2014 and 2016.
This may be the result of a delay
between the time of issuing new
shares on the exercise of stock options and the time of
repurchasing them from the market.
Between April 2007 and January 2015, the company had
repurchased 1.43 million
shares.
While the company's decision to choose
between paying dividends and making a
share repurchase / buyback depends on a number of factors, we will discuss the fundamental differences
between these two from the investor's perspective.
Share repurchases are often used to the fill the gap
between excess capital and dividends, so that the company can return more to shareholders without being locked into a pattern.