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- an arrangement whereby a company buys its own stock on the stock market.
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- Ten Plans Share Buyback to Boost Value
- Ten Network Holdings Ltd plans to buy back 10 per cent of its issued stock over the next 12 months to boost its share price, which had lost half its value over the past year.The announcement helped Ten's shares to rise 8.5 cents, or 6.27 per cent to 1.44....
- News items 2008-07-03
- Vodafone Unveils Share Buyback
- By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters UK) - Mobile phone group Vodafone VOD moved quickly to defend its share price on Wednesday, announcing a surprise 1 billion-pound buyback programme after its stock crashed a day earlier on a weaker-than-expected trading update. Vodafone shares slumped almost 14...
- News items 2008-07-23
- Vodafone Unveils Surprise $2 Billion Share Buyback
- By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phone group Vodafone VOD moved quickly to defend its share price on Wednesday, announcing a surprise 1 billion-pound ($2 billion) buyback program after its stock crashed a day earlier on a weaker-than-expected trading update....
- News items 2008-07-23
- The Value of Share Buybacks
- When companies buy back their own stock, they can usually expect the capital markets to reward them with an increase in their share price. But buybacks don't increase a company's intrinsic value. Any mechanical increase in earnings per share will likely be offset by a reduction in the company's price-to-earnings...
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- A Breakdown of Stock Buybacks
- There are a number of ways in which a company can return wealth to its shareholders. Although stock price appreciation and dividends are the two most common ways of doing this, there are other useful, and often overlooked, ways for companies to share their wealth with investors. This paper, will...
- White papers 2005-12-09
- Contracting In Supply Chains: A Laboratory Investigation
- The publisher investigates the performance of two commonly-used mechanisms for coordinating the supply chain: the buyback and the revenue-sharing contracts. The simple setting considered is the one with a two-member supply chain in which the retailer faces the newsvendor problem, the supplier has no capacity constraints, and the delivery occurs...
- White papers 2005-11-06
- Can Buybacks be a Product of Shorter Shareholder Horizons?
- This paper examines how shareholder investment horizons influence firms' payout decisions. It finds that U.S. firms held by short-term institutional investors have a higher propensity to buybacks shares instead of using dividends. Firm managers seem to respond to the preferred payout policy of investors in their shareholder base. Share buybacks...
- White papers 2004-10-18
- The Long-Run Operating Performance of On-Market Share Buybacks
- This paper examines the long-run operating performance of firms announcing on-market share buybacks in Australia during 1996-2000. Using a comprehensive sample of on-market buybacks the paper links the four most widely accepted hypotheses explaining the growing prevalence of buybacks, i.e., the information signaling, free cash flow, leverage, and investment hypotheses,...
- White papers 2004-01-30
- Assessing the Effects of Buybacks on Investment Trust Discounts
- Buybacks for investment trusts have become common since 1999. The stated motivations for investment trusts buying back shares include ongoing reduction of discounts and a reduction in discount volatility. This paper describes the buybacks made over the study period and tries to assess the circumstances in which this has lead...
- White papers 2002-06-06
- Buyback Fever
- From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that when the market was at its peak, buybacks were the last thing on CFOs' minds. But, when the market trends re-emerged, CFOs were back in buyback mode. Companies usually offer at least one of five basic reasons for a buyback: to boost stock...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- The CPA In Industry : Corporate Share Buybacks
- In an era of abundant IPOs and stock placements, corporations also are announcing record buybacks of their outstanding shares. Repurchases serve a variety of purposes, from increasing earnings per share to providing stock for employee benefit plans. Although buybacks can be a sound part of a publicly held corporation’s financial...
- White papers 2000-08-01
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- Peerless Systems Announces the Adoption of a Share Buyback Program
- Peerless Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: PRLS)today announced that the Company's Board of Directors authorized therepurchase of up to 2.0 million shares of common stock, in accordance witha written plan adopted pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the SecuritiesExchange Act of 1934, as amended. Chairman of the Board Timothy E. Brog said, "This...
- Articles 2008-07-16
- Hunt Gold Corporation -- Confirmation of Sale
- Hunt Gold Corporation (PINKSHEETS: HGLC)confirms that the Company has agreed the terms of the sale of its "AmericanMolygold" Mining & Exploration interests. The proceeds from the sale of these "Molygold" interests are to beimmediately upon the Company's receipt; be utilized to effect a substantialshare buyback of the Company's "free float"...
- Articles 2008-07-16
- BT unveils Pounds 1.5bn plan to bring faster broadband to millions
- BT showed its hand on next-generation broadband yesterday with a proposal to spend 1.5bn bringing super-fast access to up to 10 million households by 2012, contingent on Ofcom's agreement to regulatory changes. The communications giant is suspending its 2.5bn share buyback programme after just 1.8bn to help...
- Articles 2008-07-16
- Hunt Gold Corporation -- Planned Share Buyback
- Hunt Gold Corporation (PINKSHEETS: HGLC)announced on July 14, 2008 that certain Investment Groups had assumedvoting control of the Company and the Board of Directors, with theassistance of these Investment Groups, and that the Company will definitelybe disposing of its "Molygold" interests very shortly. Stockholders are advised that the Company has...
- Articles 2008-07-16
- Royal Dutch Shell Plc: Buyback of Own Shares
- LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc announces that on 15 July, 2008 it purchased for cancellation 500,000 "B" Shares at a price of 1875.34 pence per share. Following the cancellation of these shares, the remaining number of "A" Shares of Royal Dutch Shell plc...
- Articles 2008-07-15
- Terex Board Authorizes Increase in Stock Buyback Plan
- WESTPORT, Conn. -- Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an increase in its share repurchase program, under which the Company now may purchase an additional $500 million of the Company's outstanding common shares. This brings the total amount that may be repurchased under...
- Articles 2008-07-15
- Royal Dutch Shell plc: Buyback of Own Shares
- LONDON, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc announces that on 14 July, 2008 it purchased for cancellation 500,000 "B" Shares at a price of 1905.60 pence per share. Following the cancellation of these shares, the remaining number of "A" Shares of Royal Dutch Shell...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- Hunt Gold Corporation -- Update on Sale and Share Buyback
- Hunt Gold Corporation (PINKSHEETS: HGLC)announced on July 11, 2008 that certain Investment Groups had now assumedvoting control of the Company and that the Board of Directors, with theassistance of these Investment Groups, was in discussions to dispose of itsrecently acquired "Molygold" assets. The Board of Directors can now confirm that...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. Announces Stock Buy-Back Plan
- ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRLI) announced today that its board of directors has approved a Stock Repurchase Program authorizing the repurchase of up to 1,000,000 shares of its Common Stock in the over-the-counter market at prevailing market prices through October 31, 2010. The board of directors...
- Articles 2008-07-14
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