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Article #620084Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:28
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:28
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Scott Lurndal wrote: > 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-tha n-120-billion-of-stock.html > http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/12/22/apple-expected-to-increase-stock-b uyback-grow-dividend-payments-as-result-of-tax-reform OK. I hadn't heard about that one. /BAH
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