As they repurchase shares, those remaining public shares will get a bump in value.
If Europe's companies, flush with cash, want to repurchase shares, their governments should not stand in their way.
He also notes that Amazon does not repurchase shares very often, having done so in only five quarters since 2001.
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More of it is available to be reinvested into their business, used to repurchase shares or even distributed as dividends to shareholders.
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Apple pays no dividend, declines to repurchase shares, and makes few acquisitions.
Zacks says that with its strong cash balance, Myriad has been able to repurchase shares, expand into new markets, and introduce more products.
So a boss with a stack of options to buy the company's shares at a set price has a strong incentive to repurchase shares.
It enjoys tremendous pricing power and generates substantial free cash flow that enables it to repurchase shares and hike its dividend yield, now at 4.4%.
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It will also tilt the playing field in favor of large-cap companies utilizing their cash to repurchase shares and raise their still tax advantaged dividends.
These companies are cherished as special situations waiting to happen: They might repurchase shares, implement or increase regular dividends, declare special dividends or even become buyout targets.
Chief executives are preferring to repurchase shares with the large amounts of cash companies are generating in 2010 rather than reinvest funds to develop or expand product lines.
Last fall Berkshire announced that if the per-share book value fell below 110% of the stock price (1.1x the stock price) the company would step in and repurchase shares.
Venerable IBM, for instance, used the proceeds of a 2010 bond offering (which pays a 1% yield) to repurchase shares, which had a 2% dividend yield at the time.
And if no liquidity opportunity is presented, the employee may have to hold shares indefinitely, or the company could be required to repurchase shares, which may significantly impact cash flow.
We expect SIRI to utilize FCF and an under-levered balance sheet (in accommodative fixed income markets) to aggressively repurchase shares, shrinking share count by 20% through 2015 and 45% over the next ten years.
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What is going on is executives directly and indirectly raiding corporate treasuries to fight their personal tax burden when the money should be going to pay dividends or repurchase shares for the benefit of we shareholders.
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It plans to retire debt, repurchase shares and explore for oil and gas, especially in the U.S. ConocoPhillips brought in new execs in October to bolster plans for a successor to Chief Executive James Mulva, 64.
With interest rates currently low, many companies are borrowing funds to repurchase corporate shares.
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We used the lower prices as an opportunity to repurchase the shares we sold in the third quarter.
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We look at the net effect of a repurchase on shares outstanding.
Buffett has previously said that CEOs should repurchase only when shares fall below intrinsic value.
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We continue to believe our shares are attractively priced at current levels and therefore, we currently intend to repurchase all of the shares issued within the next two years-- and that's in addition to what we planned to repurchase in the absence of the transaction.
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Devon has been accelerating its repurchase of its own shares, driven by its rapidly mounting cash flow, notes Nabi.
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If the REIT offers a share redemption program, make sure you understand how the repurchase price for your shares will be determined and, most importantly, the limitations of the plan.
The managers surmised that if all future earnings were excess capital, AIG would be able to repurchase 14% of its shares.
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As in Zollars' case, the companies typically retain a right to repurchase a portion of those shares at the grant price if the executive screws up.
The stock repurchase program means Hecla is authorized to repurchase up to 20 million shares of its outstanding common stock from time to time, with the purchases expected to occur over the next 24 months, the company said.
Best Buy's strong results for the three months ended Aug. 28 were due to tight expense controls, increased sales of cellphones and services such as connecting televisions with home networks, and a stock repurchase program that reduced total shares outstanding.
The company expects to continue to buy back shares consistent with its repurchase authorization.
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The longer the chief sticks around, the fewer shares are subject to repurchase.
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