Oracle's Credit Rating Lowered

S&P recently announced that it was lowering the rating on Oracle's debt from AA- to A+. The reason given for the downgrade was the ...

Buffett Defends Buybacks

Even though stock buybacks have come under fire in Washington, famed investor Warren Buffett says they make "nothing but sense." ...

Stock Buybacks

Stock buybacks have been in the news recently as Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer proposed that a company should only be allowed to buy bac...

Spotify's Reverse IPO

Spotify went public on April 3, 2018 in a direct listing. Bypassing the traditional underwriting process, Spotify basically said that its s...

Buybacks Fall

In the second quarter of 2017 , S&P 500 companies repurchased $120.1 billion worth of stock, down 9.8 percent from the first quarter and...

Share Repurchases Decline

Even though companies in the S&P 500 repurchased $115.6 billion in stock during the third quarter, this actually represented a decline ...

Microsoft Pays Shareholders

Microsoft announced that it was raising its dividend by 8 percent and would buy back an additional $40 billion in shares after the company ...

Share Repurchases And Value Creation

A recent article on the McKinsey & Company website discusses the effect of dividends versus stock repurchases. We are happy to report t...