buybacks

A powerful yet underappreciated force may be behind Wall Street’s 2025 rally: a flood of corporate share buybacks, reaching levels not seen in years. As of June 9, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are both trading just 2% below all-time highs, a dramatic shift from the March correction and the...

Ahead of the fourth-quarter reporting season, Goldman Sachs’ Eric Sheridan sized up the e-commerce industry. In an analyst note published on Wednesday, Sheridan issued ratings for the following companies: Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) with a Buy rating and a price target of $240. eBay Inc (...

In a move to reassure investors of its ongoing recovery, Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) has announced a series of measures, including job cuts, share buybacks, and dividends. What Happened: The German lender revealed on Thursday that it would be reducing its workforce by 3,500 employees, primarily in...

Share buybacks, along with dividends, are considered shareholder rewards, but there is additional insight to be gained from companies' repurchase efforts. Several exchange-traded funds, in some form or fashion, focus on companies that are prodigious repurchasers of their own shares, including...

The world's most notable investor Warren Buffett is no fan of share buybacks. The "Oracle of Omaha" consistently argues companies that buy back their own stock aren't generating shareholder value, rather, they are destroying it over the long term at the expense of appeasing shareholders in the near...

Auto stocks were notably higher on Tuesday after General Motors Company (NYSE: GM)surprised the Street with an earnings per share guidance for fiscal 2017, which exceeded Wall Street's estimates. General Motors' management team was speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2017 Global Auto Industry Conference...

Earlier this month, Goldman Sachs said corporate buybacks are, at the moment, the only source of demand for U.S. stocks. That is not a bullish statement, but S&P 500 companies remain enthused by their own shares. In the fourth quarter, measured as November through January, share repurchases...

When it comes to developed markets with impressive buyback and dividend resumes, the United States is a leader, but other markets, such as Australia and the UK, have solid track records of initiating and growing shareholder rewards. Japan is a different case. While the ability of Japanese companies...

Baidu Inc (NYSE: BIDU) made headlines on Thursday by announcing a new $1 billion share buyback program. The stock surged more that 3 percent following the announcement, as shareholders viewed the move as a sign of confidence on behalf of management. Buyback Frenzy Baidu is not the only...

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Aptly-named financial bubbles can disappear just as quickly as they form. Seabreeze Partners Management Inc. President Doug Kass was a special guest on Benzinga's #PreMarket Prep, and he talked about where he thinks the biggest bubbles are right now. Depending on your point of view, Kass said,...