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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. How Stock Buybacks Work and Why Companies Do Them - AOL

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    One term you may be less familiar with is "stock buyback". In a nutshell, a stock buyback occurs when a … Continue reading ->The post How Stock Buybacks Work and Why Companies Do Them appeared ...

  5. Treasury stock - Wikipedia

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    A share buyback program may increase the value of remaining shares (if the buyback is executed when shares are under-priced); if so, call option holders benefit. A dividend payment short term always decreases the value of shares after the payment, so, for stocks with regularly scheduled dividends, on the day shares go ex-dividend, call option ...

  6. Xinjuan Real Estate Expands Buyback Initiative - AOL

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    Having completed the repurchase of approximately $12.6 million of the $20 million share buyback program started last year, Xinjuan Real Estate's board of directors has authorized the repurchase of ...

  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. 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

  9. 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 ...