Share repurchases are kinder than cash dividends to shareholders who have to pay taxes.
Steven Wieting of Citigroup projects that both dividends and share repurchases will rise sharply next year.
Buybacks are a corporate hot item, with share repurchases at their highest levels since 2007.
Continental Europe, in particular, could benefit from more share repurchases in yet another way.
When an announcement is made find out if share repurchases will be funded with debt or cash.
Half of Microsoft's cash flow from operations is dedicated to share repurchases to counter the dilution from options.
Further the company had been rewarding its investors with a solid dividend growth rate and attractive share repurchases.
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The company said its guidance did not take the anticipated effect of any additional share repurchases into consideration.
What about the argument that share repurchases have replaced dividend checks as a way of distributing corporate cash?
Rohan also thinks the Skype deal could accelerate share repurchases at the company.
If more share repurchases are on the docket, expect credit quality to deteriorate.
Another, albeit indirect, way of paying shareholders is through share repurchases (stock buybacks), and it has also been quite popular.
At the same time, these banks will probably begin to return capital more aggressively through share repurchases and higher dividends.
And so back to the question of whether the overall market will be hurt by the decline in share repurchases.
This substantial increase in our dividend will be part of our effort to reallocate capital to dividends and reduce share repurchases.
He sees multiple potential upcoming catalysts for the stock, including a new deal with Netflix and share repurchases, among other things.
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Don't forget, however, that IBM also pays a substantial dividend, and pays out further dividend-like cash in the form of share repurchases.
Rising stock prices from 2003 to 2007 may have discouraged share repurchases.
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He knows how to spare tax pain for individual investors in Berkshire, too: His plan is to pay back-door dividends via share repurchases.
Executives said they expect to generate more free cash over the next five years and ramp up share repurchases to improve investor returns.
Plentiful free cash flow easily finances its growth and share repurchases.
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Exxon is not the only big oil company that appears to have boosted share repurchases in the months leading up to the recent stock market decline.
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The company noted that while it did not buy back any shares in the latest quarter, it expects to resume share repurchases in the first quarter.
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Seagate said it will fund the dividend and share repurchases through a combination of cash on hand, future cash flow from operations and potential alternative sources of financing.
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He sees multiple catalysts for the shares ahead, including a less promotional competitive environment, easier earnings compares starting in the second half and into 2013, and share repurchases.
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In the second quarter of this year, REIT share repurchases were at their highest level since the end of 2005, which preceded a year with 35% REIT returns.
All we know is, Becton borrowed one billion dollars in November and, among the boilerplate potential uses for the ten and thirty-year debt it issued, offering documents listed share repurchases.
The company said that the return of capital to holders will involve multiple steps, and could also include share repurchases in the open market, privately-negotiated transactions and the payment of dividends.
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Interestingly, share repurchases present the converse situation, in which share prices tend to rise when the repurchase is announced, yet companies executing heavy buybacks tend to underperform over the longer term.
The return of share repurchases on a grand scale (doubtless at a time when they are far more expensive than today) will be a sign that defrosting is giving way to overheating.
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