stock buybacks

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

by Paul Roberts  · 1 Sep 2014  · 324pp  · 92,805 words

_robots_ai_and_unem ployment_antifaq/. 48. King, Ian and Beth Jinks, “Icahn seeks $150 million Apple stock buyback,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2013. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Icahn-seeks-150-million-Apple-stock-buyback-4860812.php. Chapter 7: In Sickness and in Wealth 1. “Benefits, Costs, and Policy Considerations of

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

study found that most of the money brought back to the United States from overseas bank accounts following the Trump tax cuts went directly into stock buybacks that enrich the wealthiest people and companies.55 The top ten U.S. tech companies alone spent more than $169 billion purchasing their own stock

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the casino that the dot-com boom would end up being. More specifically, it was a debate that would center around the contentious issue of stock buybacks (when corporations bid up the price of their own shares by buying them back on the open market), which had been considered illegal market manipulation

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Fail 1. Robert Lenzner and Stephen S. Johnson, “Seeing Things as They Really Are,” Forbes, March 10, 1997. 2. For information concerning stock buybacks, see “$407 Billion in Corporate Stock Buybacks! How Are Businesses in Your State Spending the Trump Tax Cuts?” Americans for Tax Fairness press release, May 10, 2018, https://americansfortaxfairness.org

Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

by Wesley R. Gray and Tobias E. Carlisle  · 29 Nov 2012  · 263pp  · 75,455 words

THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS? NOTES Part 5: Corroborative Signals Chapter 9: Blue Horseshoe Loves Anacott Steel: Follow the Signals from the Smart Money STOCK BUYBACKS, ISSUANCE, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS INSIDER TRADERS BEAT THE MARKET ACTIVISM AND CLONING SHORT MONEY IS SMART MONEY NOTES Part 6: Building and Testing the Model Chapter

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-beating returns. Investors might then use those candidates as the starting point for a full fundamental analysis. Either way, signals are very useful to investors. STOCK BUYBACKS, ISSUANCE, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Many studies have found stock repurchases to be predictive of market-beating returns. The corollary is also true. Stocks issuing shares tend

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), forthcoming. Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1361800 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1361800. 9. Jack Hough, “Buy Signals: How to Decipher Stock Buybacks.” Wall Street Journal, Upside, January 21, 2012. Available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577171231151712236.html. 10. James O'Shaughnessy, What Works on Wall Street

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, Robert Short selling Shumway, Tyler Simons, Jim Singleton, Henry Sloan, Richard Small sample bias “Some Insiders Are Indeed Smart Investors” (Giamouridis, Liodakis, & Moniz) Sortino ratio Stock buybacks, issuance, and announcements Stock market, predicting movements in sustainable alpha quantitative value strategy simplifying tried-and-true value investing principles model, testing benchmarking data errors

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

elevating the single fitness function of increasing share price above all else, they hollowed out our overall economy. The preferred tool of choice has become stock buybacks, which, by reducing the number of shares outstanding, raise the earnings per share, and thus the stock price. As a means of returning cash to

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shareholders, stock buybacks are more tax-efficient than dividends, but they also send a very different message. Dividends traditionally signaled, “We have more cash than we need for

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the business, so we are returning it to you,” while stock buybacks signaled, “We believe our stock is undervalued by the market, which doesn’t understand the potential of our business as well as we do.” They

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surge, or whether Fink and others are right that we simply aren’t making the investments we need, it is clear that companies are using stock buybacks to create the illusion of growth where real growth is lagging. Stock prices are a map that should ideally describe the underlying prospects of companies

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of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness, notes that in the decade from 2004 to 2013, Fortune 500 companies spent an astonishing $3.4 trillion on stock buybacks, representing 51% of all corporate profits for those companies. Another 35% of profits were paid out to shareholders in dividends, leaving only 14% for reinvestment

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Matters,” Vanguard, retrieved April 4, 2017, https://about. vanguard.com/what-sets-vanguard-apart/why-ownership-matters/. 245 an astonishing $3.4 trillion on stock buybacks: William Lazonick, “Stock Buybacks: From Retain-and-Reinvest to Downsize-and-Distribute,” Brookings Center for Effective Public Management, April 2015, https://www.brook ings.edu/wp-content/uploads

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April 2, 2017, http://piketty. pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/media/Time%20-%20Capital%20in%20the %20Twenty-First%20Century.pdf. 247 “‘sustainable prosperity’”: Lazonick, “Stock Buybacks,” 2. 247 more of the compensation moved to stock: Foroohar, Makers and Takers, 280. 247 options had to be disclosed, but not valued: Hal Varian

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, 316 Steinberg, Tom, 146 Stern, Andy, 305 Sternberg, Seth, 332–33 “Stevey’s Platform Rent” (Yegge), 111–13 Stiglitz, Joseph, 255, 261, 266, 272–73 stock buybacks, 242–44, 245, 256 stock options, 247, 279–80 Stoppard, Tom, xii Stout, Lynn, 292 Strickler, Yancey, 292 Strine, Leo, 292 structural literacy, 343–44

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

by Alec Ross  · 13 Sep 2021  · 363pp  · 109,077 words

had been investing in new planes, better service, or better salaries for their workers. No, they had spent $47 billion of that $49 billion on stock buybacks. Boeing spent $43 billion of its $58 billion in free cash flow during that period on stock repurchases, despite the need for investment to make

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during the surge in shareholder capitalism policies in the 1980s, immunizing executives and boards from prosecution for stock manipulation using stock buybacks. And since the 1990s, buybacks have become all but ubiquitous. Stock buybacks are Exhibit A demonstrating that if share price is all that matters in shareholder capitalism, then it creates major incentives

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but the overall economy is less dynamic and workers are not benefiting, look no further than the trillions of dollars in stock buybacks. S&P 500 companies spent $4.3 trillion on stock buybacks over the last decade. That is more than half of their net income, with another 39 percent ($3.3 trillion

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increases the productive capacity of the company. At least with dividends, shareholders can reinvest or otherwise spend the money as they choose to, but with stock buybacks the money just disappears. This $4.3 trillion produced nothing material. It increased the stock price, which is the sole marker to which most boards

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, in practice, whenever these companies hit a crisis they go to the government for a bailout. Because they spent all their free cash flow on stock buybacks, they do not have the money to rescue themselves, so they ask taxpayers to do it for them. Far from some pure form of capitalism

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had been investing in new planes, better service, or better salaries for their workers. No, they had spent $47 billion of that $49 billion on stock buybacks. We saw an even more dramatic form of corporate socialism when the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, injected trillions of dollars of liquidity into

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a greater share of their income on research and development than those in the United States. Between 1998 and 2014, American companies announced 11,096 stock buybacks, compared to only 533 in total across firms in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands. Though many argue that codetermination results in

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-19 pandemic and rose to record highs while the pandemic was still surging. Equity-based compensation for workers can also be a partial antidote to stock buybacks, the dumbest and least effective attribute of shareholder capitalism. Better the stock live inside the portfolios of workers than reside inanimately on corporate balance sheets

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, and for stakeholders to be reflected in business’s bottom line. There will be plenty of available cash for wages and stock for distribution because stock buybacks will be illegal. In this vision of 2030, that Filipino family won’t find their options so stunted; they will be able to work hard

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. Killing off shareholder capitalism enables us to end tax havens, which gives governments the resources to fight climate change, which means less climate migration. Ending stock buybacks means companies have more money to pay workers in both cash and stock, which means less long-term dependency on safety net programs and greater

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Science Foundation, April 2000, https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nifty50/barcodes.jsp. $49 billion on stock buybacks: Philip van Doorn, “Opinion: Airlines and Boeing Want a Bailout—but Look How Much They’ve Spent on Stock Buybacks,” Marketwatch, March 22, 2020, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/airlines-and-boeing-want-a-bailout-but

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-look-how-much-theyve-spent-on-stock-buybacks-2020-03-18. nearly 75 percent of Americans worked on farms: Stanley Lebergott, “Labor Force and Employment, 1800–1960,” in Output, Employment, and Productivity in

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Journal on Regulation, November 8, 2019, https://www.yalejreg.com/bulletin/the-1-trillion-question-new-approaches-to-regulating-stock-buybacks-2/. $4.3 trillion on stock buybacks: William Lazonick, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Matt Hopkins, “Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy,” Harvard Business Review, January 7, 2020, https://hbr.org/2020/01/why

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-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for-the-economy. more than $49 billion in free cash flow: van Doorn, “Opinion: Airlines and Boeing Want a Bailout,” https://www.marketwatch.

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com/story/airlines-and-boeing-want-a-bailout-but-look-how-much-theyve-spent-on-stock-buybacks-2020-03-18. To put it bluntly: Richard Feloni, “The Economist Joseph Stiglitz Explains Why He Thinks the Late Milton Friedman’s Ideas Have Contributed

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stakeholder capitalism calls for turn to Nordic countries and Standard Oil Stanford University Stanley, Vincent Stansbury, Anna Starbucks state power. See governmental power Stiglitz, Joseph stock buybacks Stoller, Matt Stone, Oliver strikebreaking strikes Stripe Summers, Larry surveillance China and democracy and regulation of sustainable practices Sweden Swift, Jonathan Switzerland Syria, civil war

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen  · 4 Apr 2011  · 1,088pp  · 228,743 words

of starting yield and growth prospect, their estimates can diverge widely. One debate is whether to use dividend yields or broader payout yields that include stock buybacks and issuance. The disagreement on growth prospects is even worse. Anyone using analysts’ earnings growth forecasts inherits the extreme optimism typical of analysts who often

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signal. The trend decline in D/P in the 1980s and 1990s partly reflected a structural change: many firms replaced dividends with repurchases (i.e., stock buybacks), which were more tax efficient, more flexible, and had a more positive impact on share price. If top executives are compensated based on share price

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

by Rana Foroohar  · 16 May 2016  · 515pp  · 132,295 words

desires of their consumers—and from the hearts and minds of the country at large. Because make no mistake, Apple’s behavior is no aberration. Stock buybacks and dividend payments of the kind being made by Apple—moves that enrich mainly a firm’s top management and its largest shareholders but often

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business decisions that might undermine growth in their companies even as they raise the value of their own options. It’s no accident that corporate stock buybacks, which tend to bolster share prices but not underlying growth, and corporate pay have risen concurrently over the last four decades.54 There are any

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—all in order to avoid tax collectors in the United States. Remarkably, the firm did so while issuing debt on American markets to fund the stock buybacks and dividend payments that would line the pockets of some of the world’s wealthiest people. But that scenario is by no means the weirdest

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than comparable public companies do.39 The reason? As we have already seen in chapters 4 and 5, public companies are pouring their money into stock buybacks and dividend payments that enrich mainly those who are already wealthy, and encourage executives to focus on quarterly returns rather than longer-term growth prospects

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prices are booming not because of fundamental economic improvements, but because of a toxic combination of flat salaries, lowered investment in the real economy, and stock buybacks. Corporate debt (not including debt held by banks) has risen from $5.7 trillion in 2006 to $7.4 trillion today. Much of that money

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Nineties, 115–17. 20. Author interview with Stiglitz for this book. 21. Lazonick, Mazzucato, and Tulum, “Apple’s Changing Business Model,” 30. 22. William Lazonick, “Stock Buybacks: From Retain-and-Reinvest to Downsize-and-Distribute,” Brookings, April 2015. 23. This data is for 458 companies; it appeared in the S&P 500

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

by Thomas Philippon  · 29 Oct 2019  · 401pp  · 109,892 words

will review the broad trends in the US economy over the past twenty years, looking at entry and exit of businesses, market shares, mergers, profits, stock buybacks, and investment. * * * a  Olivier Blanchard (2003) explains in his discussion of Basu et al. (2003), “fully one-third of the increase in TFP [total factor

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It

by Steven Brill  · 28 May 2018  · 519pp  · 155,332 words

hedge funds that turned owning stock into a minute-by-minute bet rather than a long-term investment. They invented proxy fights, leveraged buyouts, and stock buybacks that gave lawyers and bankers a bonanza of new fees and maximized short-term profits for increasingly unsentimental shareholders, but deadened incentives for the long

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news. Yet to see how America got where it is today, it is important to understand the pivotal decision to allow what Wall Street called stock buybacks. As part of a broader deregulatory agenda, President Ronald Reagan’s Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, John Shad, pushed through a rule setting out liberal

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guidelines for corporations to repurchase their stock on the open market. Such stock buybacks had long been frowned on by regulators, who feared that companies could profit unfairly at the expense of their own shareholders by buying stock just

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remain deductible. Options, or stock awards, and even cash bonuses based on the year-end stock price now had the government’s blessing, thereby making stock buybacks that boosted stock prices even more enticing. To compound the problem, after being pressured by Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, the Clinton administration blocked

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. Similarly, the obsession with quarterly stock prices—and with it, cutbacks in research and development, outsourcing of jobs, and stock buybacks forced by “activist” raiders—has not abated. In 2016, the value of stock buybacks and dividends returned to shareholders from the S&P 500 companies exceeded all of their operating profits. That does

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limiting investment—have become more visible, short-termism’s profile as a political issue has sharpened. In the 2016 American presidential election, the impact of stock buybacks as a damaging disinvestment tool was raised for the first time by one of the major nominees. “All too often,” declared Hillary Clinton during the

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campaign, “the additional corporate revenue is going to stock buybacks and executive bonuses instead of benefiting consumers, employees, and the economy as a whole.” * * * — Although it is lately more in vogue, the idea that corporations

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weight in voting to shareholders who hold stock for a stipulated length of time, such as one or two years; and once again not allowing stock buybacks—a Reagan-era deregulatory experiment that has clearly been bad for the overall economy. All have been proposed by recent political candidates, particularly on the

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fundamentally changed the nature of the workforce and the career prospects for millions of Americans. Executives, who were now often focused on gathering funds for stock buybacks, were able to cut permanent payrolls and accompanying fringe benefits, and forgo the training required to move employees into more skilled positions. As a 2017

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-workers.pdf. See Table 1 for ratios over time, and Figure C for a graph of the trend. drug makers Amgen and Pfizer: William Lazonick, “Stock Buybacks: From Retain-and-Reinvest to Downsize-and-Distribute,” Brookings Institution, April 2015. In particular, see Table 1 for ratio of buybacks and dividends to earnings

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Fraud Case.” Mozilo testified: Audiotape of his testimony before the FCIC is available online here: http://fcic.law.stanford.edu/​interviews/​view/​67. value of stock buybacks and dividends: Letter from Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, to his clients. Text: https://www.blackrock.com/​corporate/​en-us/​investor-relations/​larry-fink

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

codes, pensions, the healthcare industry, the legal fraternity, constitutional law, organized labor, executive compensation, lobbying, billionaires’ networks, the right wing, the dynamics of economic growth, stock buybacks, the financial industry and all its innovations—so many subjects of which I was mostly ignorant. My immersion was revelatory. Reading hundreds of books and

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. Even in a short-term financial sense for investors, it might be a waste. One study published in 2011 for chief financial officers concluded that stock buybacks “may not yield as much value as investing in a company’s business.” Company executives tend to buy back their shares when the price is

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mistake by spending billions on stock purchases, doesn’t that cast doubt on our absolute faith in the efficient free market? In this way, massive stock buybacks are like the capitalist version of Christians who shake and scream to prove that the holy spirit is real and inhabiting them. But if you

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percent, but you can’t keep doing that forever. For a decade, since before she was in the Senate, Elizabeth Warren has been saying that stock buybacks provide only a “sugar high for companies in the short term.” That metaphor seems too benign. It’s more like the high—and addiction—produced

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but from companies buying back their own stocks. If it “makes sense” for corporations to devote such a stupendous fraction of our economic resources to stock buybacks, it’s because the rules of our political economy were written—that is, rewritten—forty years ago to make it so.*10 * * * — When shareholder value

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influential right-wing American economist—and co-wrote F. A. Hayek’s final book, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, in the 1980s. *9 Stock buybacks aren’t performance-enhancing drugs, because those actually make athletes run faster and hit baseballs farther. *10 Another epic irony: although Charles Koch is responsible

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