Sentences with phrase «stock buybacks since»

He said years of «breathtakingly massive» corporate stock buybacks since the end of the Great Recession are giving way to the high - end retail investor taking the reins.

Diller would rather focus attention on the $ 200 million or so in cash flow IAC generated in 2009 or the $ 100 million in smallish investments or the 25 percent stock buyback since the 2008 spin.

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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.

According to research by HSBC, buybacks have been the largest source of net demand for the stock market since 2009.

Since 2012, when the company launched the largest share repurchase program ever, Apple has returned a little more than $ 100 billion to shareholders in stock buybacks and dividends.

Since 2011, Fortuna has calculated a «buyback ROI,» or return on investment, which tracks post-buyback stock prices and other data points to measure the effectiveness of corporate repurchases.

Since the financial crisis, several trends have kept it in check, including a surge in business models which are less asset heavy, a shift in focus toward consumer - facing technologies, and passive investing strategies that reward companies for spending free cash on stock buybacks rather than capital goods.

Aflac also announced a 5.4 % increase in their quarterly dividend to $ 0.39 a share and increased the size of their buyback plan from $ 1 billion to $ 1.2 billion which I like since it shows management is being smart when it comes to buying back stock on cheap valuations.

Since then, the stock has risen by 27 % on the back of strong earnings and a $ 10 million buyback announcement.

But shareholder primacy isn't a new phenomenon: Birinyi Associates, a market research firm, has tracked $ 9.9 trillion in stock buyback announcements since 1984.

TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that announced stock buybacks in earnings season through Monday, August 15 have fallen to the lowest level since the summer of 2012, averaging just 3.3 for $ 1.8 billion daily.