Given the substantial discount to its current asset backing,
any shares bought back at these levels have a huge positive effect on its per share value.
Given the substantial discount of INFS to its current asset backing,
any shares bought back at these levels have a large positive effect on the underlying asset value.
The dollar value of gains or losses is calculated by the change in market capitalization, plus dividends, less the proceeds of shares issued, plus the cost of
shares bought back.
That makes the raw number of
shares bought back misleading.
To me it looks like that in the short term and in the current yield starved environment, investors seem to prefer the dividend yield compared to the ecoenomically better
share buy backs which I find very interesting.
As expected, the AGM decided to switch from
Share buy backs to dividends.
As CEO,
the shares you buy back in the open market are economically identical to the shares you created and gave yourself.
Most likely
share buy backs div raise and maybe some new cook tech that will blow it all away...
Given the significant increase in
share buy backs in recent years, which will probably continue in the future, it is quite likely that this component will contribute more to total returns going forward than its historical average.
The only positive factor in this respect is the flurry of
share buy backs which will most likely continue in the future and will increase expected earnings per share growth, counterbalancing some of the impact from the adverse macro environment referred to above.
Does the company plan on
share buy backs 17.
Hi Wex in dec 2012 you wrote a letter for the ARGO management suggesting different share holder friendly activities, of which one was
a share buy back.
I sure hope the Rilases don't take
the share buy back proposal rejection the wrong way and decide that it must mean that share holders are not interested in getting Money out anyway and decide not to persue other means of returning our money.
And I mean nobody is forcing anyone to sell, so I cant see how
a share buy back can be unfair to the shareholders who choose to sell below intrinsic value...: o.
a # 2million
share buy back at a best (/ worst?)
I would agree with you that
a share buy back would be more beneficial to shareholders at this discounted price.
I see they own 36 % of the shares, so they would only get up to around 50 % even after
the share buy back (wouldn't they, k or how do you get 89 %?).
Great purchase — I like your inclusion of
the share buy backs — as that is big for us over here at the diplomats — free cash, reducing shares, maintaining EPS up and thus allowing cash to come back to us.
Similarly, companies spent $ 650 billion this year in
share buy backs, a new record exceeding the previous record of $ 566 billion reached in 2007.
Indeed,
share buy back can be very beneficial if done by an undervalued company.
As CEO,
the shares you buy back in the open market are economically identical to the shares you created and gave yourself.
Every vote's important here, especially since special resolutions require 75 % of the votes to be passed — and I'm sure no shareholder wants to see a repeat of last year's AGM, where
the share buy back resolution failed to receive the necessary votes.
And don't forget, at that point, management should have a marvelous one - two combo at its disposal — tender offer, then
share buy backs!
That's not a bad thing; higher dividends,
share buy backs and acquisition will ensue.
I think we kinda miss the average yearly amount of money paied out as dividends and
share buy backs.
A # 6 - million professional claim in respect of an accountant's negligence in executing
a share buy back
Not exact matches
Sumit Malhotra, an analyst with Scotiabank, says RBC could
buy back its
shares in the near term instead of making a splashy purchase.
The fund hopes to
buy the
shares back at a later date for a cheaper price before returning them to the original owner, pocketing the difference minus fees.
In a complex deal, Fuji Xerox would
buy back Fujifilm's 75 percent stake in their joint venture before Fujifilm would then purchase 50.1 percent of new Xerox
shares.
In theory, if net income is up 10 percent, earnings per
share should be up 10 percent, unless a company is
buying back shares.
It echoes Druckenmiller's argument that cash is not being re-invested into machinery, labour and R&D but is instead being used to
buy back company stock and artificially boost
share prices.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer «s huge purchase of Twitter
shares should not have been seen as a great «
buy» sign when it was disclosed
back in October 2015.
But Loeb left Yahoo's board after Yahoo
bought back his
shares.
On Monday, short interest was $ 8.1 billion, down from a high of $ 9.5 billion at the end of January after some traders
bought back shares to avoid additional losses, according to S3, a process known as short covering.
The company said in February that it planned to
buy back up to $ 5 billion of stock over 2018 - 2020 to
share the benefits of higher oil prices with investors.
«In addition, the group
bought back a further $ 300 million of
shares to return to shareholders part of the benefit realized from higher oil prices,» Pouyanne said.
Total said it will raise first quarter interim dividend by 3.2 percent, while Scrip
shares issued in January for the second 2017 interim dividend were
bought back to prevent dilution.
That implies that on average, Apple will
buy back some $ 31.4 billion worth in
shares over the next year.
Over the next three years, B of A only
bought back 500 million
shares, or around 5 % of the float.
So in 1999, again on the advice of the board and with the help of wealthy New York friends, Hollender
bought back his struggling company for $ 1.30 a
share.
Moreover, Boeing has been
buying back swaths of its own
shares — a boon for both its shareholders and its stock price.
In other words, a company — and its executives — can
buy back shares during a blackout period, providing they are doing so according to a predefined plan.
Comcast also plans to
buy back as much as $ 5 billion worth of its
shares in 2016.
In its 2017 annual report, the company said it
bought back 47 million
shares in the third quarter, averaging 16 million
shares in each of the three months in that quarter.
Before, mostly it was on the consumer side, and businesses were leveraging but using a lot of that to
buy back shares.
A company — and its executives — can
buy back shares during a blackout period, providing they are doing so according to a predefined plan.
Certainly GM's decision to
buy back shares around that time also sweetened the stock for Einhorn.
The firm also sees a «decent chance» Exxon will start
buying back shares in the «near future.»
* To
buy back, cancel 187.5 bln won
shares over 3 years from 2019.
It can
buy back shares to prop up its own stock price, as it did late last year in a $ 5 billion repurchase.