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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. Nvidia's $50 Billion Share Buyback Is the Ultimate ... - AOL

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    Long story short, a $50 billion share repurchase program doesn't hide the fact that Nvidia's insiders are big-time sellers, the stock is historically pricey, and no highly touted innovation has ...

  5. Wash-sale rule: What to avoid when selling your losing ... - AOL

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    You sell the stock for $8 a share and then 23 days later re-buy 100 shares for $7 a share. Because you’ve repurchased the stock within the 30-day window, you have a wash sale.

  6. Wash sale - Wikipedia

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    The term, therefore, derives its name from the late sale and early morning repurchase. [3] Wash sale rules don't apply when stock is sold at a profit. [4] A related term, tax-loss harvesting is "selling an investment at a loss with the intention of ultimately repurchasing the same investment after the IRS's 30

  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. Kroger and Albertsons are spending billions to reward ...

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    Kroger said it would repurchase $7.5 billion of its shares after a more than two-year pause, with $5 billion of that to be repurchased in an accelerated fashion — the same sum that Kroger ...

  9. ExxonMobil Is an Expert at Repurchasing Shares - AOL

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    On any given day, ExxonMobil's ranks right up there with Apple as one of the top companies in the world by market capitalization. Depending on what investors think of Apple that day, it'll claim ...