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Article #620083Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:57
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:57
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jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes: >Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes: >>> Shareholders have been experiencing reductions in dividends since the >>> banking system imploded so they should get some. >>> >>> I suspect a lot of CEO's are leery so are waiting to see if Congress takes >>> it all back which they can with one pen-stroke. >>> >>> What I don't know is whether the cash brought in from overseas is subject >>> to an income tax; I think it is so Congress will be getting windfall >>> to waste. >> >> however there is enormous shift to returning value to shareholders with >> stock buybacks which increases the value of stock held by shareholders >> ... however it shifts more to speculators that buy just before the >> buybacks and unload after the buybacks ... must less focus on real >> (long term) "investment". > >I hadn't heard of buybacks. Are Apple and Walmart doing that? Everybody does that. IBM has been buying back billions of dollars worth of shares for the last decade - it's one of the biggest props for their overpriced stock. Yes Apple, too has spent billions buying back stock over the last decade. Apple is planning on buying back at least 120 Billion work of stock with the offshore money. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/buy-apple-because-it-could-buy-back-more-than-120-billion-of-stock.html http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/12/22/apple-expected-to-increase-stock-buyback-grow-dividend-payments-as-result-of-tax-reform
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