Why to Pay Attention to Today’s Buyback Boom
There has been a lot of debate recently about whether today’s buyback boom — a record $133 billion in buybacks for S&P…
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Indexology®: Companies buy fewer shares, but issue even less, reducing their share count and pushing up EPS
Companies continue to increase their shareholders’ returns through buybacks and cash dividends. These two expenditures, combined, reached $214.4 billion in the fourth…
Indexology®: Buybacks and the S&P 500 EPS
Buybacks do not increase S&P 500 Index earnings-per-share (EPS), the Dow is a different story. On an issue level, share count reduction…
Stock-Picking Buybacks Kind of Sort of Works
Before getting too far into 2014, a prominent theme from 2013 is worth remembering: Share buybacks. Members of the S&P 500 increased…
U.S. Buybacks Reach Highest Level Since 2007
Members of the S&P 500 increased share buybacks by 8.6% during the third quarter to $128.2 billion up from the $118.1 billion…