Translation of "Stock buyback" in German

Did it change your thinking about giving cash back to shareholders as a dividend or a stock buyback?

Of course, Discovery points to US$350m cost synergies and suspension of the stock buyback programme to support post-deal debt reduction towards a new 3.0-3.5x target.

Other agenda items included approval of a control and profit transfer agreement between MME AG and moviement GmbH, the renewal of the stock buyback programme and the creation of a new pool of authorized capital.

Both stock buybacks and mergers and acquisitions are hitting new heights.

Stock buybacks are a parasitic financial mechanism.

Thanks to the trillions of dollars of liquidity that major central banks have pumped in to the global economy over the past decade, asset markets have rebounded, company mergers have gone into overdrive, and stock buybacks have become a benchmark of managerial acumen.

To varying degrees, conventional “retain-and-invest” strategies are being replaced by “downsize-and-distribute” strategies, whereby profits are spent on increased dividends, stock buybacks, and mergers and acquisitions.

With this decision the Fed gave these Wall Street giants the go-ahead to dole out $125 billion in stock buybacks and dividend increases to their shareholders.

Many people think the stock market rising is a good thing, but what is really going on is that the central banks are printing funny money and handing it out to their friends who use it for stock buybacks in order to consolidate their control of major corporations and get richer.

That’s an average of more than $6.5 billion a year in stock buybacks, enough to give each of its 1.4 million U.S. workers a $4,670-a-year raise.

Once an icon of innovation for its proud legacy of investing in basic research, the 21st-century IBM has instead chosen to spend an astounding $117.5 billion on stock buybacks since 2003—a remarkable 89.4 percent of total profits.

That's an average of more than $6.5 billion a year in stock buybacks, enough to give each of its 1.4 million U.S. workers a $4,670-a-year raise.

Apple spent $43.5 billion on stock buybacks in the first half of this year, 40 times more than it paid its iPhone assembly workforce in China over the same period.

On the other hand, as we’ve learned from the past 40 years of slow growth and record stock buybacks, not even an infinite supply of capital can persuade a CEO to hire more workers absent demand for the products and services they produce.

A frenzy of stock buybacks, dividend increases and mergers and acquisitions—this is where the hundreds of billions of dollars that corporations gained through Trump's tax cut for the rich are going.

What the ruling establishment fears above all is any interruption to the constant stream of corporate profits, dividend payments and stock buybacks that have bloated the bank accounts of the richest 10 percent in the decade since the start of the Great Recession, while all workers of all nationalities face increased hardship.

As our epidemic of stock buybacks clearly illustrates, capitalists like me already have more money than we know what to do with.

The value added for SMEs is hard to see, and funds raised will most likely be used predominantly for refinancing of existing debt and for stock buybacks instead of new investments.

On the other hand, as we've learned from the past 40 years of slow growth and record stock buybacks, not even an infinite supply of capital can persuade a CEO to hire more workers absent demand for the products and services they produce.

So if you're still thinking that higher wages or fewer hours of overtime for you and your coworkers might bankrupt the public company you work for, I encourage you to do this: Send an email to your CFO and ask him or her how much your company has spent on stock buybacks over the past 10 years in both dollars and in percent of pretax profits?

So if you’re still thinking that higher wages or fewer hours of overtime for you and your coworkers might bankrupt the public company you work for, I encourage you to do this: Send an email to your CFO and ask him or her how much your company has spent on stock buybacks over the past 10 years in both dollars and in percent of pretax profits?

The position of the IMF is that the Trump administration's tax cuts, which will increase government debt while providing hundreds of billions of dollars to the bottom line of US corporations, much of it to be used for stock buybacks, will worsen the US trade position by sucking in imports.