And without the ability to do a big acquisition, Citi is plowing money into stock repurchases.
ExxonMobil forked over 40% of revenue last year in taxes, dividends and stock repurchases.
Or they can pay it out in the form of stock repurchases or stock dividends.
Intel ( INTC) announced last week that it would use some proceeds from a bond sale to fund stock repurchases.
ExxonMobil (nyse: XON - news - people ) forked over 40% of revenue last year in taxes, dividends and stock repurchases.
This is a huge amount of capital washing into stock repurchases.
Big pharma has less cash for deals because the patent cliff and pricing pressures have hit operating cash flows and spending on earlier deals, stock repurchases and dividends.
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The main options management has right now are to reinvest its funds into a flat defense sector or return the money to shareholders through stock repurchases and the like.
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Not only did B give back all of its cash flow and then some to holders over the 2007-2012 time period, most of that was returned in the form of stock repurchases.
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Wall Street analysts are divided on stock repurchases.
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In the first half of the year, Palmisano got IBM to spend more on stock repurchases than any other company in the U.S., according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.
Were Congress to approve a change in the law, he thinks the company would bring some of the cash home and pay out some of it to holders in the form of dividends or stock repurchases.
Sam Palmisano, chief executive of International Business Machines, has gotten his company to spend more on stock repurchases than any other company in the nation so far this year, according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.
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Stock Repurchases Increased After Repatriation.
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Hence when the company said that it is changing its previous policy of allocating 50% of net income to dividends and stock repurchases and will allocate more profit to investing in growth in the Asia region, including India, and the Middle East, its stock was bid up 3% in afternoon trading.
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Another, albeit indirect, way of paying shareholders is through share repurchases (stock buybacks), and it has also been quite popular.
Some of those CEOs also want to avoid the antics of some Connecticut hedge fund manager who has his eye on a new boat and is demanding share repurchases and quick stock gains.
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When repurchases are in the plan, the stock price is better off going nowhere as long as earnings do go up.
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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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Rising stock prices from 2003 to 2007 may have discouraged 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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Repurchases or fund transfers were also down, indicating that although people were uncertain about stock market conditions, they were "sitting tight".
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