And without the ability to do a big acquisition, Citi is plowing money into stock repurchases.
AIG's current management, Greenberg contends, is too timid to make a big acquisition or strategic move.
Ridge says he's looking to make a big acquisition and maybe even take on debt.
Expect a big acquisition or two, or at least a Cloud laden OpenWorld next fall.
The company has long been looking for a big acquisition to add to its portfolio.
It knows that it needs a big acquisition for a shot at global super-carrier status.
And should U.S. Bancorp make a big acquisition, Davis has the cost-control skills to make it pay.
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National Bank of Greece is the country's largest banking group and recently made a big acquisition in Turkey.
That money, she says, could help Pfizer make a big acquisition to make up for the Lipitor loss.
Ridge, a 12-year company veteran and chief executive since late 1997, says he's looking to make a big acquisition.
As for those plans to raise more money and make a big acquisition?
He did a 45 minute show during TechCrunch Disrupt that turned into a big acquisition celebration as well, for example.
If Schmidt thought his stock were really overvalued, he might protect Google by making a big acquisition with the inflated shares.
Frontier funded a big acquisition with an issuance of new shares.
" Kindler also said that although Pfizer would consider doing a big acquisition, he was not interested in doing deals "for the purpose of financial engineering.
National Bank of Greece (nyse: NBG - news - people ) is the country's largest banking group and recently made a big acquisition in Turkey.
Verizon played down the prospect of doing a big acquisition, saying instead that it could look to establish beach heads in ways that take advantage of the company's global Internet backbone and other data centers around the world.
Buying back shares and raising its quarterly dividend 25% is a signal that Merrill's management feels confident about growth targets, though analysts said it could also indicate that Merrill sees those actions as better alternatives than a big acquisition.
Sure every once in a while one of those companies will do a big acquisition, but by their nature they will generate a lot of cash and returning some of that to shareholders has to be part of the toolbox.
As for Mr Sommer, a big overseas acquisition remains the cornerstone of his ambition.
Merger Monday rolls on with an offer for a majority stake of Timberland and a big technology acquisition by Honeywell.
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If it requires a big expensive acquisition, they need to move quickly to do that and retain the key top talent.
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Barbara Ryan, an analyst at Deutsche Bank who rates Pfizer stock a "buy, " says she expects the stock to "trade like a treasury bond" until Pfizer takes a big strategic step, like a major acquisition.
The acquisition is a big bet for Yahoo, given Tumblr's financial performance so far.
The Tandberg acquisition was a big reason why the consortium got going, Miller said.
That said, this acquisition is a big deal that bodes well for the future of Dell.
But they still may decrease the amount of growth a big pharmaceutical firm can get through acquisition.
He thinks Schering-Plough's acquisition of Organon, a big transatlantic drugs merger, might indicate that governments' desire to preserve national champions is at last waning.
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