Tag: stock buybacks

Corporate GovernanceExecutive CompensationSecurities

Will more regulation be imposed on stock buybacks?

by Cydney Posner Lots of companies have been buying back their stock in recent years, either on their own initiative because, for example, management thinks the shares are undervalued, or sometimes at the insistence of  hedge fund activists bent on increasing the market price of the shares.   Now, as discussed […]

/ August 14, 2015
Corporate GovernanceSecurities

They spurred the stock buyback phenomenon. Will hedge fund activists now eviscerate R&D?

by Cydney Posner It is widely recognized that one of the primary causes of the current stock buyback phenomenon has been pressure from hedge fund activists. But, as suggested in this NYT DealBook column, the activist playbook is certainly not limited to buybacks and dividends: “[a]s activist hedge funds take […]

/ May 1, 2015
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Senator urges SEC to revisit rules and policies on stock buybacks

by Cydney Posner Data compiled by S&P and Bloomberg shows that companies in the S&P 500 spent 95% of their earnings on repurchases and dividends in 2014, including spending $553 billion on stock buybacks in 2014. The number was $1 trillion for 2013 and 2014, the biggest two-year total ever […]

/ April 28, 2015
Corporate GovernanceSecurities

Are stock buybacks hurting the economy?

by Cydney Posner According to “Companies’ Stock Buybacks Help Buoy the Market,” by Dan Strumpf, published in the WSJ on September 15, 2014, “[c]ompanies are buying their own shares at the briskest clip since the financial crisis, helping fuel a stock rally amid a broad trading slowdown. Corporations bought back […]

/ September 24, 2014
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