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  2. What are stock buybacks and why do companies use them? - AOL

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    A stock buyback, or share repurchase, is when a company repurchases its own stock, reducing the total number of shares outstanding. In effect, buybacks “re-slice the pie” of profits into fewer ...

  3. Share repurchase - Wikipedia

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    The most common share repurchase method in the United States is the open-market stock repurchase, representing almost 95% of all repurchases. A firm will announce that it will repurchase some shares in the open market from time to time as market conditions dictate and maintains the option of deciding whether, when, and how much to repurchase.

  4. Explainer: What are share repurchases? - AOL

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    A share repurchase, or share buyback, is when a company rebuys its own shares and returns money to its investors.

  5. Why Share Repurchases Aren't Always Good for Investors - AOL

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    Investors count on earnings per share, or EPS, to measure earnings, not stock repurchases. Meanwhile, some companies are going into debt in order to continue their stock buyback programs. M.H ...

  6. Accelerated share repurchase - Wikipedia

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    Accelerated share repurchase (ASR) refers to a method that publicly traded companies may use to buy back shares of its capital stock from the market. [1]The ASR method involves the company buying its shares from an investment bank (who in turn borrowed them from their clients), and paying cash to the investment bank while entering into a forward contract.

  7. Greenmail - Wikipedia

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    While benefiting the corporate raider, the company and the company's shareholders lose money. Greenmail also momentarily protects the company's existing management and employees from termination, demotion, or reduction in wages, which would have most certainly seen their ranks reduced or eliminated had the hostile takeover successfully gone ...

  8. Capital structure substitution theory - Wikipedia

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    The two main capital structure theories as taught in corporate finance textbooks are the Pecking order theory and the Trade-off theory.The two theories make some contradicting predictions and for example Fama and French conclude: [3] "In sum, we identify one scar on the tradeoff model (the negative relation between leverage and profitability), one deep wound on the pecking order (the large ...

  9. Dividend policy - Wikipedia

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    The Modigliani–Miller theorem states that dividend policy does not influence the value of the firm. [4] The theory, more generally, is framed in the context of capital structure, and states that — in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy costs, agency costs, and asymmetric information, and in an efficient market — the enterprise value of a firm is unaffected by how that firm is financed: i.e ...