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The Motley Fool February 6, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bad Buyback, Bad! Today companies often choose to reward shareholders with a simple and popular method investors love: share buybacks. When is it good? When is it bad?
The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Share Buybacks Aren't All Equal In the right circumstances -- when a company has excess capital and undervalued shares -- share repurchases are great for shareholders. But if the company is repurchasing overvalued shares, the buyback can actually be a sign of poor management.
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The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Anders Bylund	Stop the Buyback Insanity! Netflix has the worst share buyback plan I've ever seen. Please stop it.
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The Motley Fool December 12, 2003 Zeke Ashton	A Big Win for the Little Guy Sometimes the little guy wins. Utah Medical Products, a little company with a history of creating shareholder value, recently won an important legal battle with Tyco International. With a big cash payment on the way, another share buyback is a strong possibility.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Dan Caplinger	These Companies Wasted Your Money Many big buybacks haven't fared all that well.
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The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Buck Hartzell	Share Buybacks: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The skinny on share repurchases.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Ben McClure	Tellabs Is Listening But is a buyback enough to keep the telecom company's investors happy?
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The Motley Fool April 26, 2006 Tim Beyers	Big Blue's Big Buy IBM bumps its dividend 50% and boosts share buybacks. This move has all the markings of smart capital allocation that's likely to be rewarding for patient investors.
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The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Brian Lawler	Sciele's Blue-Moon Buyback The specialty pharmaceutical surprisingly renews its share repurchase plan.
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The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Rich Smith	Northrop, This Way and That The defense contractor reports strong earnings, but questionable stock buybacks.
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The Motley Fool June 14, 2007 Nathan Parmelee	Target Releases Arrows Made of Money The retailer has done well by shareholders, and might do even better.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2005 Dave Marino-Nachison	Timberland's Gotta Split The company's split-and-buyback news isn't major, but investors shouldn't ignore it.
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InternetNews July 20, 2004 Erin Joyce	Microsoft To Buy Back $30B In Stock Microsoft moved to significantly boost the value of its shares Tuesday, as it announced a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share as well as plans to buy back up to $30 billion of its own stock over the next four years.
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The Motley Fool June 7, 2004 Chris Mallon	Shareholder Dilution Delusions Using shareholder cash to stem stock option dilution is a deceptive, wealth-destroying practice.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Staples Secures Shares Wall Street's buyback binge continues. Staples had a $1.5 billion buyback plan in place already, but it had burned through $1.2 billion of its authorization and decided a re-up was in order.
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