Pros & Cons (Stock Buybacks)

Pros of stock buybacks for investors:?

Boost in share prices: Stock buybacks can offer a short-term bonus for investors. The buyback means there are fewer shares trading on the public markets. This tends to strengthen the share price, so your shares may be worth more, at least in the short term.

Rising dividends: Sometimes the company will be able to increase dividend payment amounts after a buyback because there are fewer shares on which the company must pay a dividend.

Better earnings per share: When public companies announce profits, they track their progress in part by looking at earnings per share. With fewer shares trading, the Eps number usually rises. This can help the company beat market expectations for their performance and help drive a higher stock price.

Less excess cash: If a company has bundles of cash just sitting in a money market account, that money isn’t doing much for the company. It’s earning a very low interest rate, which is a portion of the company’s profitable activities. Removing the cash from the company books can lift overall performance.

Positive psychology: When a company buys back stock, investors usually see it as a sign the company believes the price should be higher, that investors are not realizing the company’s true value. This can sometimes kick off an upward swing in Stock Prices.
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CONS ON STOCK BUYBACKS
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Poor predictions: While the idea is for companies to buy up their stock when it’s cheap, often that doesn’t happen. After all, who can predict the stock market? Companies often end up buying their stock at what turns out to be high levels, making the buyback a bad use of capital.
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Sinking dividends: Sometimes companies spend a lot of money buying up shares and then cut their dividend as a result. After spending money buying back shares, the company has less cash to hand out in a quarterly dividend. So if you’re an investor who relies on dividend checks for income, this could hit you in the pocketbook.
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Poor use of capital: When a company is spending millions buying their own stock, a savvy investor should ask: Why can’t they find something better to do with their money? Every dollar used to buy up stock is a dollar that isn’t hiring more employees, ramping up marketing, acquiring a competitor, developing a new product, or otherwise investing the money to grow the business.
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Management self-interest: Stock buybacks often benefit big shareholders the most; and frequently that means company managers who hold stock Options. When the buyback boosts the stock price, often temporarily, that rise may help the stock hit a target price the managers need to exercise their options. The managers can then quickly resell their stock and pocket their profits. So company management is enriched, while the company’s research and development, marketing, hiring, and other departments are impoverished by the move. Managers may also benefit from a buyback because their bonuses may be tied to hitting a particular earnings-per-share figure. Fewer shares mean a higher EPS number.
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Cover for stock handouts: If a company is issuing tons of stock options to managers, a stock buyback helps counter that by reducing the number of shares on the market. Otherwise investors might see noticeable stock-price dilution. The buyback can help distract investors from the fact that excessive stock handouts are taking place.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------Executives win big from buybacks: The executives that implement share buyback schemes profit handsomely. Executives now receive the bulk of their compensation from stock awards and stock options — often more than 80 percent — which encourages them to take actions like share buybacks to boost stock prices for their own benefit.

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Stock buybacks worsen the racial wealth gap: Corporate strategies that focus on boosting share prices enrich the overwhelmingly white executives and shareholders while leaving Black and Latinx families further behind.

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Share buybacks exacerbate economic inequality: The strength of the stock market is not the best metric for assessing broad-based economic health because stock ownership is highly concentrated in the hands of the very wealthiest families. The wealthiest 10 percent of households control 88 percent of the stock market .
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Stock buybacks divert resources from investing in companies and jobs: Stock buybacks harm workers and undermines long-term economic growth by shifting revenues from capital investments and workers’ wages and benefits.
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Share buyback is generally a positive signal because company perceives shares to be undervalued and it has confidence in its growth prospects. There could also be a possibility that company does not have profitable reinvestment opportunities so they are buying back the shares. This could be a negative signal for growth investors. Investors can analyze this action and its purpose to understand where the company is heading to. The idea here is that actions speak louder than words.
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Stock buybacks made as open-market repurchases make no contribution to the productive capabilities of the firm. Indeed, these distributions to shareholders, which generally come on top of dividends, disrupt the growth dynamic that links the productivity and pay
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Whether it is corporate debt or government debt that funds additional buybacks, it is the underlying problem of the corporate obsession with stock-price performance that makes U.S. households more vulnerable to the boom-and-bust economy. Debt-financed buybacks reinforce financial fragility.
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Whether it is corporate debt or government debt that funds additional buybacks, it is the underlying problem of the corporate obsession with stock-price performance that makes U.S. households more vulnerable to the boom-and-bust economy. Debt-financed buybacks reinforce financial fragility.
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Stock-based instruments make up the majority of [corporate executives] pay, and in the short-term buybacks drive up stock prices.” Buybacks divert resources from investing in worker wages and benefits, productivity enhancing capital upgrades, or research and development.
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Taxing stock buybacks would raise revenue and discourage companies from pursuing this strategy that puts the interests of lavishly paid executives ahead of reinvesting in longer term business health, in workers and in the broader economy.
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