Sentences with phrase «to reduce the share count»

The company has reduced its share count by about 10 % per year for the past three years while also raising its dividend by nearly 20 % per year.

This math, then, indicates that the most recent bull market has been all about reduced share counts.

While its dividend yield is only 1.4 %, the company reduced its share count by 2.3 % over the last year.

The purpose of reducing the share count is to increase the ownership percentage of each share.

Management has a long track record of disciplined capital allocation, having reduced the share count by nearly one - third over the past decade, and it recently initiated a fairly generous dividend.

Grainger has been steadily reducing its share count for years.

Grainger has been steadily reducing its share count for years.

By borrowing money at less than 4 % and repurchasing shares that the company pays 5 % on, it is increasing current cash flows while simultaneously reducing share count.

I have a «cannibal» screen (Charlie Munger's term for buybacks) that looks for companies that have been steadily and significantly reducing their share count over the last 10 years.

Over the last 9 years, JNJ has only reduced its share count by -5.8 % an annualized rate of -0.67 %.

And then, between 2008 and 2011, when the stock got cheap again with a P / E ratio in the mid teens, Schnatter reduced the share count by 20 million — taking it from 65 million to 45 million.

JNJ's ability to generate large amounts of free cash flow means it could easily take on more low - cost debt and drastically reduce its share count.

Still, share buybacks can be an excellent source of shareholder value if bought at reasonable prices and if they truly reduce share count.

But the key here is that share repurchases must actually reduce share count.

Then, as shown in the following chart, they began a share buyback program that has been steadily reducing the share count annually.

Over the years, Loews has reduced their share count from around 1.3 billion (adjusted for splits) in 1971 to around 370 million today.

By borrowing money at less than 4 % and repurchasing shares that the company pays 5 % on, it is increasing current cash flows while simultaneously reducing share count.

Buyback factoid: ~ 20 % of S&P 500 companies have reduced their share count by at least 4 % year - over-year in each of the last five quarters -LRB-!!)

The tech company has also returned an additional $ 151 billion to shareholders since its fiscal year 2013 in the form of share buybacks — a move that has reduced share count and boosted earnings per share by about 21 % in the past four years, according to Silverblatt.

As of [Tuesday] night, 92 companies in the S&P have reported Q2 earnings; 20 have reduced their share count by at least 4 % year - over-year.

In connection with this, we have repurchased approximately 5.3 billion shares at an average price of $ 81, reducing our share count by approximately 15 % as of October 4.

Add to that a share repurchase program that has reduced share count by over 3 % in the last year, and suddenly Apple looks a lot more lucrative to conservative investors.

On average, their existing businesses grew, they added income from new businesses, they reduced their share count, and they ended up with stronger balance sheets than they had started with.

He liked that they were reducing share count.

Twelve of our companies, just over 20 % of our holdings, used their cash flow to achieve all four goals: they increased the dividend, reduced the share count, made an acquisition and still ended the year with a stronger balance sheet.

The TrimTabs ETF is based on the same principle as the PowerShares ETF — that reducing share count is ultimately good for shareholders — but the ETFs» methodology are very different.

While none can completely escape the issue of market timing, they can certainly address the most critical aspect: ensuring that share buybacks do indeed return capital to shareholders by reducing share count.

On the top side, and I did not see any of these, be aware of reverse splits, which can reduce the share count, are a sign of a badly run company, but do nothing for the economics of a firm, aside from keeping them listed on a major exchange.

As you can see, Coke has reduced its share count about 10 % over the past 10 years.

That should give one pause before investing in the stock of a company that subjects itself to a split aimed at reducing the share count and raising the stock price.

In doing so the company managed to reduce its share count by almost 30 % between 2008 and 2010.

Finally, during the last week of the quarter I cut back my exposure to AIG and BAC, reducing share count by 10 % and 20 % respectively, and initiated a small hedge using SPY puts.

Dr. Singleton started buying up his company's own shares and from 1972 to 1984 he tendered eight times and reduced his share count by some 90 %.

of cash spent on share buybacks since Q3, but recognize the reduced share count.

Here are links to the first five pieces: On Insurance Investing, Part 1 (reducing share count) On Insurance...

Factor in the reduced share count and you arrive at a higher intrinsic value per share.

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.