Sentences with phrase «while stock buybacks»

It is important to note that while stock buybacks have a mild effect on the real economy, they tend to have a much more direct and positive effect on the financial economy.

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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.

Following what will be one of its most profitable years ever in North America, General Motors raised its earnings guidance for 2016, while also dramatically increasing its stock buyback program and its quarterly dividend.

A Morgan Stanley survey found that analysts estimate 43 percent of tax cut savings will go to stock buybacks and dividends, while 13 percent will go to pay raises, bonuses, and employee benefits.

And those earnings will occur while a repatriation effect is unleashing $ 1 trillion of stagnant cash in some form of robust redistribution (dividends or stock buybacks) or as productivity - enhancing capex spending.

As well, stock buyback programs bid up the price of the stock while the company is buying it back.

Nearly $ 200MM was spent to repurchase far more expensive IMN shares prior to 2008 while a pittance of IMN capital has been deployed to buyback shares when the stock is trading for less than its net cash value.