Questions tagged [share-repurchase]
Questions relating to companies buying back their own shares from the market.
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Should I buy shares in public institutions when they are privatized? [closed]
Recently, the government in my country has been privatising big institutions, selling shares mostly to its citizens.
There is of course incentive to buy it from the government, they've been pushing ...
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Can a company repurchase treasury stock or issue shares based on insider information?
Let's say a company knows it's about to release very bad earnings, can management increase the pace of share issuance ahead of the reporting date? Likewise, if a company knows they are about to ...
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What's the point of share repurchases?
Let's say a company has a market cap of $11 million, 1 million shares outstanding, no debt, and $1 million in cash. Right now, if I am an investor, I own some shares that are worth $11 each. If the ...
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What could be the intention between increase and decrease of share capital that seem to cancel out?
A company has published shareholder meeting decisions: https://cns.omxgroup.com/cdsPublic/viewDisclosure.action?disclosureId=884745&messageId=1113616
Currently there are 40 794 850 shares with ...
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Do companies sell puts when buying back shares?
Say company X has a share price of $80. They think their shares are undervalued, and their board approved a buyback of $1 billion. Can company X use the $1 billion to sell puts at $79, with the idea ...
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Why would a company like Apple be buying back its own shares?
What is the reason that a company like AAPL is buying back its own shares? Does it have too much cash and it doesn't know what to do with it? So it is returning the cash back to investors?
