Sentences with phrase «through stock buybacks»

Investors can profit from companies that aim to increase shareholder value through stock buybacks — as well as with dividends.

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.

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.

Some analysts predict the company could send as much as $ 180 billion to investors through stock buybacks and dividend increases over the next two and a half years, on top of the $ 300 billion it has already authorized.

Not exact matches

Buybacks have been a safety net of sorts for the stock market through the almost nine - year bull market.

The last time multinational companies repatriated cash — also during the last Bush presidency — a bipartisan Senate investigation later found that those same companies actually shipped even more jobs overseas, while paying their shareholders billions through buybacks of their own stock.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Earlier this year, under investor pressure, Apple decided to increase the size of a dividend - and - buyback program to $ 100 billion, including $ 60 billion to repurchase stock through 2015.

At current prices, the 250 million share buyback authorization would represent $ 13.2 billion and through 3Q15, Wells Fargo has repurchased $ 6.7 billion of common stock, which represents 2.5 % of WFC's market cap.

Then they distribute the profits to their shareholders, either through dividends or stock buybacks.

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.

Only through cheap debt accumulation have laggards been able to afford the buybacks necessary to keep stock appreciation stable.

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.

I look for intelligence in the management teams in stocks that I own, and am quick to sell those that destroy value through bad investments, or bad buybacks.

Analyze the use of cash flow by management, to avoid companies that invest or buy back their stock when it dilutes value, and purchase those that enhance value through intelligent buybacks and investment.

The second way to make money in the stock market is through dividends and share buybacks.

Obviously with tech companies and their cash holdings, their approaches to stock comp / buybacks / repatriation / capex through acquisition etc have to be borne in mind, and how much of it is effectively working capital in one form or another — but it occurred to me that there are a few companies out there where cash balances could make a material difference to valuation (even more so than picking the right multiples with some!)

The logical thing is a reduction in Equity through a negative Treasury Stock entry — makes sense, an Asset (Cash) is decreased / eliminated because of the buyback, so we need a corresponding reduction in the Liability side of the B / S, in Equity — but on occasion I've seen shares rather bizarrely carried on the B / S as an Asset!

Outerwall hasn't been liquidating itself through buybacks — instead it has leveraged the balance sheet by issuing large amounts of debt, using the proceeds to buy back stock, which has reduced the share count, but not the size of the balance sheet or the amount of capital employed.

CEOs who are paid in stock have an incentive to boost their short - term share price through buybacks, whether or not activists are in charge.