Buybacks in a sentence

I know what share buybacks are and I know how they're financing their share buybacks.

The total return of cash is likely to split relatively evenly between dividends and buybacks for 2023 based on the share count and dividend payouts, with slightly more going into share buybacks.

The company has also spent $9bn on stock buybacks since 2019 and has planned another $2bn in stock buybacks.

Aggregate buybacks declined sequentially as companies with an opportunistic approach were less active, and some stayed on the sidelines altogether.

And Shell is still looking out for shareholders, announcing $3 billion in share buybacks.

And so just if we'd see a ramp in distribution growth or buybacks, if it looks like you all were drifting into call it mid-2s or even low-2s.

Any thoughts on shifting away from the base dividend program in favor of more buybacks.

Aside from share buybacks, Cardinal Health is also paying a quarterly dividend to distribute cash to its shareholders.

Autoliv has an activist investor onboard ensuring that dividends and share buybacks reward shareholders.

Biden floated several ideas that have no shot with a Republican majority in the House: quadrupling the tax on corporate stock buybacks, increasing taxes on the wealthy, banning assault weapons, and so on.

BP has said it will use a considerable portion of its surplus cash flow, 60%, to stock buybacks which I am not a fan of.

Buybacks will, of course, compete with any other capital allocation opportunities, but they will also act as a benchmark for our business developers.

Campaigners are continuing to raise concerns about energy profiteering in the wake of the latest announcement of record profits and there have been calls for a tax on share buybacks.

Charter has gone nuts with share buybacks.

Companies say they do stock buybacks to consolidate ownership, stabilize stock prices or return value to shareholders.

Considering Union Pacific spent in the last quarter another $120 million to repurchase its shares, bringing the total amount spent on buybacks at $750 million so far.

Ellacott expects dividends to remain high this year but said oil prices would probably have to increase from the current level to sustain the volume of share buybacks seen in 2022.

Even though I am generally not a huge fan of share buybacks, when the stock is this low, it would be almost a breach of fiduciary responsibility for a business that's generating attractive cash flows to not buy back stock.

However the fund counts total buyback dollar amounts, so how could those sketchy companies even come close to the top 5% buybacks in the SP500?

I also suspect that share buybacks will likely be on hold for the foreseeable future and including 2024.