This, it expects, will help increase flexibility with regard to preserving capital for future share buybacks.
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That changed as company boards began to retain cash for reinvestment and share buybacks.
Following the announcement, banks including Bank of America announced share buybacks and dividend payouts.
That makes share buybacks and purchases of other seemingly undervalued firms look like good deals.
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Bachman also believes management will spend on growth-potential acquisitions and share buybacks by next year.
Share buybacks were pioneered by Henry Singleton, the long-time head of Teledyne, a conglomerate.
Singapore Telecom plans share buybacks too, the reason why Ang has a buy on it.
Others have fought back with management share buybacks and counter-suits against their critics.
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How can this impact capital spending, dividend payout ratios, financial engineering deals and share buybacks?
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The number of options granted in the previous year is not correlated with share buybacks.
Proceeds from that sale are expected to be used for share buybacks and business development, says Saftlas.
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The dividends and share buybacks that the Fed was mulling are important to ordinary investors, and banks.
Often times the amount of stock outstanding for a company declines when it makes meaningful share buybacks.
And share buybacks facilitate the running of employee share-ownership schemes, an increasingly important part of workers' compensation.
They all have increased their dividends and had share buybacks within the last year according to Bloomberg data.
Dividend payments don't generate the commissions for the brokerages that share buybacks do.
The Fed forbade them from going through with any dividend increases and share buybacks they may have asked for.
Most companies use share buybacks or pay special dividends on their common stock to return excess cash to shareholders.
So are share buybacks, however wimpy they make management look, the best way to create value at the moment?
American and British insurers are indeed launching share buybacks more often these days.
Fundamentals are sound and they sell at 10 times free cash flow which foretells share buybacks, deals and rising dividends.
Institutions deemed under-capitalized must curtail dividends, share buybacks, and acquisitions, and they also may be forced to raise additional capital.
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Dividends are also predictable and visible, unlike share buybacks which are just promises and can be delayed or stretched out.
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Corporate profits are up 140% since 2002, and companies are finally investing their loot in ways other than share buybacks.
My assumption is enormous free cash flow accumulation is reinvested at a high rate of return plus aggressive share buybacks.
Currently, Monsanto has 545 million shares outstanding and to keep it simple I will not factor in any share buybacks.
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Much of the new cheap bond-market finance is being used to replace expensive existing facilities or to fund share buybacks.
Often with relatively small ownership stakes, the fund calls for share buybacks financed with debt, management changes or an outright sale.
Share buybacks to amplify EPS growth are simply the cherry on top.
That one time action will strengthen its financial position, but also will limit share buybacks, which were substantial not long ago.
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