buyback
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈbaɪˌbæk/
- Specialized
- After selling their original technology, the firm arranged a buyback to regain control of the assets.
- buyback program
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- What is a stock buyback and why do companies do it?
- And so that's what created the stock buyback boom.
- And they say we're going to give back a lot of it in dividends or we're going to do big stock buybacks to pump up the price.
- Later in the afternoon, there was a sustained rise in financial markets as companies announced stock buyback programs to support demand for their stocks.
- Things like stock buybacks or moving, moving money between countries have not really raised the wages of most Americans.
- They're paying dividends and issuing buybacks like total morons.
- For corporate buybacks coming to an end, that's right.
- To me, it's like that industry as well as others, They do this thing where it's like a buyback of their stock.
Examples
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The "buy-and-hold investor" holds on to her shares in a buyback and receives a bigger fractional ownership in the company.
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And they say we're going to give back a lot of it in dividends or we're going to do big stock buybacks to pump up the price.
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To me, it's like that industry as well as others, They do this thing where it's like a buyback of their stock.
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And in fact, there are many companies and they do stock buybacks instead of paying dividends.
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Things like stock buybacks or moving, moving money between countries have not really raised the wages of most Americans.
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For corporate buybacks coming to an end, that's right.
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We started by documenting the rise of buybacks as a form of corporate payout relative to dividends.
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Consumers who recycle their containers can redeem the refund value at more than 2,000 buyback recycling centers.
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Using data from Compustat, we calculated the buyback yield of the S&P Composite Index for 1971-2014.
Academic text (2017) -
The company's board announced a buyback of its shares to increase shareholder value.
Synonyms
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6.0
Buying back something you sold or left with someone to get money
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4.9
Buying back something that was sold before
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6.4
A company buying its own shares to raise their value or return money to owners
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7.2
Getting something back that was once lost, sold, or given away
A rule that makes a seller buy back defective loans or goods
Antonyms
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Etymology
The word buyback is simply buy + back, where back means 'again' or 'to get back'. So a buyback is when someone buys something they sold before, for example when a company buys back its own shares.