Sentences with phrase «shareholder returns through»

Since its founding by Joseph W. Berkery in 1983, Berkery Noyes has assisted corporate clients in their desire to grow through acquisition, divest non-core assets, and maximize shareholder returns through strategic transactions and restructurings.

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.

Not exact matches

The company, which has been looking to sell the business since April, said it would return 245 million pounds ($ 371.6 million) of proceeds to shareholders through a special dividend, and use the rest for bolt - on acquisitions.

Fukakusa was circumspect in addressing the question, writing the bank will «look for the right balance between investing in our businesses for long - term growth, returning capital to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks, and pursuing select acquisitions that fit our strategy and risk appetite.»

Apple said last quarter it had returned $ 248.4 billion in total capital to shareholders, and anticipated that figure would hit $ 300 billion in through March 2019.

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«We will continue to strengthen our investor confidence through various policies for returning profits to shareholders based on our improved performance.»

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 %.

«In 2017, we returned nearly $ 12.7 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases,» said Ian Read, chairman and chief executive officer.

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 are moving forward with a continued sense of urgency on our four strategic priorities: narrowing our focus on clients, products, and geographies where we can grow profitably; driving for efficiency; growing through innovation and optimizing our data assets and client relationships; and returning excess capital to shareholders,» he added.

Apple has recently announced that it will return $ 100 billion to shareholders over three years through a combination of dividends and purchases of its own shares.

Losses can be passed directly through to the individual shareholders, allowing them to claim the company's losses on their personal tax returns.

If you have Shares held in one or more «street names,» you must complete, sign, date, and return to each bank, broker, or other nominee through which you hold Shares each voting instruction form received from that bank, broker, or other nominee (or obtain a proxy from each such nominee holder if you wish to vote in person at the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting).

«Management and our board of directors consistently focus on shareholder returns, whether through investments in new initiatives, acquisitions, share repurchases, or now, dividends on our common stock.

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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.

Management has historically returned capital to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends, and with insiders owning 35 % of outstanding shares, we expect Franklin to continue to be good stewards of shareholders» capital.

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.

«The over 15 percent increase in our dividend reflects our continued commitment to return capital to shareholders through a balanced approach of quarterly dividends and opportunistically buying back shares,» said Stephen P. Weisz, president and chief executive officer.

Overall, companies in the S&P 500 returned $ 419.8 billion to shareholders over 2017 through dividends, setting a record and rising from $ 397.2 billion in 2016.

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.

Shareholders pay taxes on the income through their personal tax returns, even though it is not distributed.

Add in that Amazon is diluting shareholders by one percent in the last twelve months, versus Macy's which is returning capital through dividends and share repurchases at a rate of twelve percent, and you get a complete picture of why Macy's looks attractive to a value investor.

Although financial activism may return immediate wealth to some shareholders through the sale of assets, payment of special dividends or share buybacks, evidence is mounting that this may be at the expense of the longer term corporate and societal interests.

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.

So keep your ears open for commentary on iPhone sell - through during the company's earnings call — but also for shareholder - friendly changes to Apple's capital return program.

Most of those companies have more near - term ability to return capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchase than financial stocks do.

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.

During the quarter, we returned over $ 300 million to shareholders through the repurchase of 2.7 million shares of common stock and the payment of a quarterly dividend.

«Fonterra can comfortably pursue both [higher milk prices and shareholder returns] because its milk price is rules - based and subject to oversight by a panel chaired by an independent director of Fonterra [and with a majority of its members being independent] coupled with oversight by NZ's competition regulator through a very public process,» he said.

The company says it has returned $ 8.5 billion to shareholders through repurchases and dividends since 2003.

This is the solution used for pass through taxation entities, where deferral of taxation is avoided by the pass through mechanism that immediately taxes shareholders whether or not profits are distributed, but it becomes complex when the entity incurs taxes in many states that must be passed on to all of the owners to report proportionately on their individual tax returns.

There's also the possibility that companies connected to donors may benefit through related party transactions or even, as admitted by Wey Education PLC, that its charitable «vehicle» operating academies would help establish a business «capable of making a return to shareholders».

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.

However, the primary focus is to return capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.

Consider, too, that the company announced, during the Q4 earnings conference call, the intention to return $ 15 billion to shareholders through dividends and repurchases over the next three years.

It has excess capital in reserve and we expect the company to return this excess capital to shareholders through increased dividends and share buybacks.

Their excess capital will eventually be returned to shareholders through buybacks and dividend increases as they continue to pass the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital and Analysis and Review (CCAR).

Another strategy that management can use to increase shareholder returns for a mature company is through shareholder buybacks.

Through a combination of increasing dividends and aggressive share repurchases, Chubb's high shareholder yield allows it to give investors good returns even without core growth, and in this case, the company would have roughly doubled your money if you had invested seven years ago and reinvested all dividends.

In fiscal 2017, the company returned more than $ 1.2 billion to shareholders through stock repurchases and dividend payouts.

Unlike individual company who can chose either to retain the profit, or return it to shareholders in the form of dividend or through share buyback, a mutual fund is required by law to be passed on profits to investors.

Instead, they obtain tax write - offs or tax credits by investing in limited partnerships created for that purpose or in shares (flow - through shares) whereby the companies pass on the deductions to the shareholders, who claim them on their own tax returns.

Although these are generally small - to medium - cap companies, certain large caps have also decided not to pay dividends in the hopes that management can provide greater returns to shareholders through reinvestment.

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.