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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. Treasury stock - Wikipedia

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    In an efficient market, a company buying back its stock should have no effect on its price per share valuation. [citation needed] If the market fairly prices a company's shares at $50/share, and the company buys back 100 shares for $5,000, it now has $5,000 less cash but there are 100 fewer shares outstanding; the net effect should be that the underlying value of each share is unchanged.

  5. Buyback - Wikipedia

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    Buyback contract, a type of financing deal in the Iranian petroleum industry Buyback of shares, see Treasury stock Stock buyback , also called share repurchase or share buyback, the repurchase of stock by the company that issued it

  6. Apple Just Announced a $110 Billion Stock Buyback. Here ... - AOL

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    Earnings season is in full swing, and all eyes are on the "Magnificent Seven" stocks.Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) just hit the earnings tape with one major headline: a $110 billion stock buyback ...

  7. 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.

  8. Microsoft's Stock Buyback: History Says This Is the ... - AOL

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    With the stock trading at around $300 at the time, it would drift lower and end 2022 at below $240 a share. Before that, the company bolstered its buyback plan by $40 billion in September of 2019 ...

  9. Wash sale - Wikipedia

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    According to the Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary, the legal definition is "a sale and purchase of securities that produces no change of the beneficial owner." [2] The IRS broadened its definition of wash sales in 1993. [6] In the United States, wash sale laws are codified in "26 USC § 1091 - Loss from wash sales of stock or securities".