With SIRI in oversold territory following its recent decline, it is possible that traders were purchasing puts alongside their stock acquisitions.
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In the quarter after first floating shares Swisher paid almost wholly in stock for new acquisitions.
High dividend tax rates will cause tax conscious boards not to make that choice, opting instead for other uses of free cash flow such as debt-fueled stock buybacks and acquisitions.
However, day-to-day dilution from routine equity-based employee compensation and other possible dilution, such as stock-based acquisitions, will likely undermine this dual-class structure and our aspirations for Google over the very long term.
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Rather than providing companies with incentives to take on more debt through stock buybacks, acquisitions or leveraged buyouts, our tax policy should encourage healthy growth and a strong economy through equity investments that can provide income to investors.
Because bank valuations have remained depressed since 2008, relatively strong banks that wish to make acquisitions might see the public markets as a means of validating their valuations as higher than industry norms, enabling them to use their stock to pay for acquisitions, Burrows said.
Large public corporations instead seem to be using their earnings to help fund stock buybacks or to make acquisitions.
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Ford spent half of it in just four quarters on stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions, and quickly found itself in a cash crunch.
Professors Aks Zaheer, Exequiel Hernandez and Sanjay Banerjee from the University of Minnesota examined such alliances-turned-acquisitions and assessed how the stock market responded to their announcements.
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Weisel's firm helped oversee 79 stock underwritings and 14 merger-and-acquisitions deals last year.
Smart Balance started its IPO because it wanted to raise money to make acquisitions, and as a growth stock it was able to attract investors.
Facebook fired an acquisitions exec last February for buying its stock on secondary markets, only to see him pop up at Twitter.
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Within the technology sector I expect more interest in IBM and Microsoft, obviously multinationals, but very inexpensive properties with innate capacity for financial engineering, namely stock buybacks, rising dividends and fill-in acquisitions.
In addition to mergers-and-acquisitions advisory, investment banking includes raising capital through stock and debt.
This will be a big test for the Batista brothers and for Brazil's tropical brand of capitalism, which mixes family control with traded stock, and finance from state-run banks with foreign acquisitions.
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So, these companies that are just the stock market are not expensive when you look, we had four acquisitions this year out of a portfolio of 95 for Baron Growth Fund.
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His group's listing on Milan's stock exchange in 2000 provided cash for a strategy of growth through acquisitions of clothing and accessories brands and licences, and turnover has since risen almost threefold.
Both operators have also floated on the stock exchange, which gave them shares that they could use as currency for their acquisitions.
Management shoulda said that dividends would keep pace with earnings now growing over 20 percent and that a stock buyback program with the rest of free cash flow was under consideration, barring acquisitions.
For long, it was actually quite impossible to find any category of acquisitions that defied this rule and made some money, but lately a few studies have started to emerge that identify types of acquisitions that are seen in a more positive light by the ever elusive stock market.
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We owned stock in a large well-run bank that for decades had been statutorily prevented from acquisitions.
Companies will spend the money on acquisitions and capital projects that will boost economic growth, spike earnings, and give stock prices a lift.
Heckmann bought most companies with US Filter's high-price stock, diluting earnings per share and masking the fact that most bottom-line growth was coming from acquisitions.
Lacking stock to use as currency, O'Reilly has been forced to pass on a number of strategic acquisitions for his software division, which makes a Windows-based Web server called WebSite.
And Mr Kahneman cites studies that show how overoptimistic chief executives (as measured by the amount of stock they own) were more likely to gear up their balance-sheets and pay too much for acquisitions.
Pinterest exploded, Instagram was scooped up in one the biggest acquisitions of the year and Facebook went public, only to be followed by an almost immediate drop in stock prices.
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