Sentences with phrase «shareholder cash return»

In both cases, TI allocated about 160 % of its incoming cash flows to shareholder cash returns, dipping into its cash reserves to keep the payouts and buybacks rolling.

Forgone capital expenditure can be used to increase shareholder cash returns — buybacks if management believes that the company is undervalued, dividends if not.

Not exact matches

They expressed a strong bias toward revenue growth over cost reduction (64 % vs. 18 %), and an equally strong bias toward investing cash rather than returning it to shareholders (57 % to 14 %).

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

Wolters Kluwer's stock price has doubled since she took charge a decade ago, and the firm has returned half of its cash to shareholders in 2015 in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

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.

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.

Covestro has announced that it will return cash to shareholders if it can't find a suitable takeover target within two years.

GM said it expects to return about $ 7 billion in cash to shareholders in 2017, bringing total cash returns to about $ 25 billion since 2012.

«In an environment like this return cash to shareholders keeps them pleased with the short - term gains while not committing to large investments that could hurt performance.»

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

Buffett is right that, for most of his stock - picking history, shareholders have likely been better off leaving their money in his care rather than siphoning the cash into their own accounts by way of dividends: Since 1965, Berkshire Hathaway stock has delivered annualized returns of nearly 21 %, more than double the S&P 500.

The percentage of respondents who said companies should repair their balance sheets is now on par with the percentage who said companies should return to cash to shareholders.

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.»

Here's some more color on returning cash to shareholders from Butters» note: «Share repurchase programs have become a very popular way of returning capital to shareholders over the years.

«While the company faces a number of significant challenges, including the continued rise of Amazon and Google, its high margin and large sales figures enable the company to generate significant free cash flow, which it increasingly returns to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.»

Michael Ferro may want his shareholders to have faith in his vision of returning Tribune Publishing to some kind of halcyon time when newspapers ruled the media world and spun off millions in cash flow with virtually no effort.

But Exxon pays half its annual bonus in cash immediately and in its proxy, it cited one - and five - year return on average capital, current - year and five - year average earnings, and current - year as well as the ten - year average annual shareholder returns as part of the justification for its pay.

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 %.

Today, Apple got credit for its bountiful buyback plans, but there are tons of other companies returning huge slugs of cash to their shareholders and I think you'll miss out if you ignore them,» the «Mad Money» host concluded.

«We also continued to invest in our commercialization capabilities, while returning significant cash to our shareholders — including a 16 percent dividend increase.

Apple shares turned lower in the after - hours after earnings beat and the firm doubled the amount of cash it will return to shareholders.

Metro gets a percentage of sales from every location, so it generates a lot of free cash flow, which it then returns to shareholders in the form of 1.53 % yield and share buybacks.

Corporations will boost sales and keep margins elevated allowing managements to both invest for growth and return cash to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.

Shareholders are looking for returns, cash is looking for a home, and debt is still rather cheap, making the overall market favorable for mergers and acquisitions, said Dale Stafford, who leads Bain's mergers and acquisitions practice in the Americas.

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.

We always are looking at how we return excess cash to shareholders.

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

Coupled with its favorable market segments, Sprouts is generating positive cash flow and returning cash to shareholders via a stock buyback program.

Still, given the size of the technology opportunities the company sees and the heightened level of competition, Apple's board says it's important to continue taking a measured approach to returning any cash to shareholders.

(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.

Apple is returning more cash to shareholders than any company ever, the Financial Times's Robin Wigglesworth wrote on Tuesday.

For instance, a percentage of GE executive bonuses depend on the company returning a certain amount of cash to shareholders.

Peltz also proposed cutting other «excess» costs, adding debt, adopting a more shareholder - friendly policy for distributing cash from CyclicalCo / CashCo, prioritizing high returns on invested capital for initiatives at GrowthCo, and introducing more shareholder - friendly governance, including tighter alignment between executive compensation and returns to shareholders.

Transaction structure will result in a strong and flexible balance sheet to support future growth and shareholder returns: The combination will significantly enhance and diversify MVW's cash flows.

Rather, cash that would have been invested to generate future returns is simply being paid out to current 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.

The company has launched a business review to consider returning cash to shareholders, making medium - sized acquisitions and more aggressive cost cuts, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Financial risk: The potential for gain or loss on a financial level measured in terms of revenue, return on investment, return on equity, shareholder value, profitability, debt level, capital expenditures and free cash flow.

In March, Qualcomm Inc, under pressure from hedge fund Jana Partners, agreed to boost its program to purchase $ 10 billion of its shares over the next 12 months; the company already had an existing $ 7.8 billion buyback program and a commitment to return three quarters of its free cash flow to shareholders.

Activist investors and institutional shareholders are increasingly forcing publicly held companies to return more cash to shareholders — and that's good for the economy.

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.

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

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

If you want companies to return less money to shareholders, then you should be able to defend an alternative choice for what they should do instead with their cash.

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.

While corporate earnings are necessary to generate deliverable cash to shareholders, comparing prices to earnings is actually quite a poor way to estimate future investment returns.

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.