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The Motley Fool
October 28, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Don't Buy the Buyback Hype Are share buybacks little more than a tool for management to massage earnings? As for the benefit to individual shareholders, is it all it's cracked up to be?   |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2005
Richard Gibbons |
Share Buybacks Aren't All Equal In the right circumstances -- when a company has excess capital and undervalued shares -- share repurchases are great for shareholders. But if the company is repurchasing overvalued shares, the buyback can actually be a sign of poor management. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bad Buyback, Bad! Today companies often choose to reward shareholders with a simple and popular method investors love: share buybacks. When is it good? When is it bad? |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2007
Emil Lee |
Are Buybacks Best? Without a doubt, share repurchases are one of the best uses of a company's excess capital. Here's why investors should get interested anytime they hear a company's planning to buy back its own shares. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Show Us the Money, Drugmakers Drugmakers have cash and they aren't afraid to use it -- on themselves. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Dividends or Share Repurchases? Share repurchases can be beneficial, but dividends reward shareholders in every environment. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Pfizer's Newest Acquisition Target The pharma giant decided to cut potential acquisitions from its revenue guidance and instead spend the money on share buybacks. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
Target Releases Arrows Made of Money The retailer has done well by shareholders, and might do even better. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Coca-Cola Enterprises: Compounding or Consuming Value? With the shares trading at 11.1 times the earnings-per-share estimate for the next 12 months, this share buyback program looks like an acceptable use of shareholder capital. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Ralph Casale |
Dueling Fools: Dividends Rebuttal The combination of cash payouts and prudent share buybacks may well be the most effective way of rewarding shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Bad Advice on Buybacks The point of a buyback is not to "move" the stock -- not over the short term. The point of a buyback is to increase shareholder value in the long run by giving existing shareholders a bigger cut of future economic benefits. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Applied Materials' Buyback The stock repurchase program sounds impressive, but has yet to add shareholder value. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: Buybacks Aren't dividends a form of surrender? Isn't a company simply shrugging its shoulders and passing the buck when it distributes owned or leveraged greenbacks? The buyback's the thing. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Big Buybacks Some big companies are planning big buybacks, benefiting investors. IBM... Pfizer... etc. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Accenture: Creating or Destroying Value? With shares trading at 14.3 times its earnings-per-share estimate for the next 12 months, the share buyback program looks like a decent use of shareholder capital at these prices. |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Will Stock Buybacks Make You Rich? The good and bad of share repurchases. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: Buybacks Rebuttal Investors, even when a company is shackled to a dividend, there's no guarantee that the payouts will continue. Forget instant gratification. Buybacks are worth the wait. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Dell: Compounding or Destroying Value? Dell's share buyback program looks like a good use of shareholder capital. In fact, I think it's worth adding Dell to your watchlist. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Don't Buy Into People's United's Buyback People's United's new buyback program doesn't mean you should buy. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2007
Brian Lawler |
The Perfect Pharma Acquisition The pharmaceutical industry has been busy consolidating in the past year. With so much buying and selling going on, here is speculation on what would constitute the perfect pharma acquisition. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2005 |
Why Share Buybacks Matter Should you think favorably of a company buying back shares of its own stock? In many cases, yes. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Raytheon: Compounding or Destroying Value? With shares trading at 7.6 times its earnings-per-share estimate for the next 12 months, the share buyback program looks like a good use of shareholder capital at these prices. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2005
Rich Smith |
Central Parking Seeks an Exit By simultaneously trying to boost its stock price with a costly buyback plan, this garage operator is trying to go a bridge too far. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Kroger: Compounding or Destroying Value? Management is spending your capital. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
The Skinny on Share Buybacks Do buybacks enhance shareholder value? Many times, these plans can work out very well for investors. But does this really make a company more valuable? No, not really. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Lockheed Martin: Creating or Destroying Value? With shares trading at 9.3 times its earnings-per-share estimate for the next 12 months, the share buyback program looks like an acceptable use of shareholder capital at these prices. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2008
Timothy M. Otte |
Share Repurchase: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Share repurchases rarely signal an undervalued stock price. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Staples: Compounding or Destroying Value? With shares trading at just 9.1 times its earnings-per-share estimate for the next 12 months, Staples' share buyback program looks like a very good use of shareholder capital. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Pharma's Newest Acquisition Targets Share buybacks are in at big pharma companies. Does it mean that licensing deals are out? |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
Hewlett-Packard's $10 Billion Spending Spree How doling out cash can boost the company's stock price. |
InternetNews
August 18, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft Buys Back Billions in Stock Microsoft said it will repurchase $16.2 billion shares of additional stock, expanding the buyback program announced in July to $36.2 billion. |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2008
Rich Smith |
Juniper's Billion-Buck Buyback But who will reap the rewards? |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
These Companies Wasted Your Money Many big buybacks haven't fared all that well. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Is Pharma Still a Safe Investment? People still have to take their medicine. Health care, like food, is something that just isn't very discretionary. And that bodes well for drugmakers. Really. |
The Motley Fool
November 6, 2007
Billy Fisher |
5 Health-Care Stocks: Bargain or Bust? They have strong earnings growth and are well off their 52-week highs. Is it time to buy these health care stocks?: WellCare Health Plans... Advanced Medical Optics... NBTY... Sciele Pharma... Immucor... |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2011
Shubh Datta |
It's Buyback Time at Best Buy The retailer plans to repurchase nearly $5 billion worth of shares. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2005
Paul Shread |
HP Boosts Buyback HP announced plans to buy back an additional $4 billion in stock late Thursday... Oil prices stabilized... The broader markets edged higher... TiVo plunged 15% on reduced expectations... etc. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2009
William Lazonick |
The Buyback Boondoggle Companies spend lavishly on share repurchases, slowing innovation and job creation. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Pharma Goes Back to School But will it produce more drugs? The pharmaceutical industry is headed back to school, with a number of large drugmakers announcing partnerships with universities. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2007
Allen Kenney |
Buy Back or Payout? Some REITs are repurchasing stock, but not all analysts agree with the move. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2007
Rich Smith |
Staples Secures Shares Wall Street's buyback binge continues. Staples had a $1.5 billion buyback plan in place already, but it had burned through $1.2 billion of its authorization and decided a re-up was in order. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Is Hewlett-Packard Crazy? Hewlett-Packard recently announced that its future is looking brighter and it's tripling its planned share repurchases, upping the limit to $12 billion worth of stock. Is it a good move? |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2009
Rich Duprey |
When Companies Buy High and Sell Low Stock-buyback activity plummeted along with the market in the first quarter. |
Entrepreneur
October 2006
C.J. Prince |
Buyback Bonanza Big companies with excess cash have jumped on the buyback bandwagon and are milking it for all it's worth. Should you do the same? |
The Motley Fool
July 3, 2007
Rich Smith |
Steel Dynamics Gets Busy There is no value prop here for shareholders. Rather than a buyback, a better move for Steel Dynamics would be to pay down a bit of its debt load. |
CFO
November 1, 2006
Randy Myers |
Can You Have Your Stock and Sell It, Too? Critics contend that something is amiss when companies buy back stock at the same time executives are selling. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Pennies on the Dollar Tree Management at the discounter announces a $500 million share buyback; investors ought to ask themselves: Is Dollar Tree a good buy now? |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Should You Bet Against Buybacks? Just because a company announces a buyback doesn't make its stock attractive. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
These Companies Look Dumb and Dumber With stocks on the rise, companies are buying back shares again. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2010
Buck Hartzell |
Share Buybacks: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The skinny on share repurchases. |
