Buybacks have provided a timely backstop to stock market crashes throughout this bull market.
. Their core argument is that the benefits of companies buying their own shares disproportionately go to shareholders instead of workers.of 2017, which gave corporations a windfall of cash that enabled then to buy their own shares in record fashion last year. S&P Dow Jones Indices says companies spent $806 billion on buybacks in 2018., still has many proponents on Wall Street.
When companies buy their own shares, they reduce the count of shares outstanding and thereby boost the profits that accrue to each one.
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