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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.
InternetNews August 18, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft Buys Back Billions in Stock Microsoft said it will repurchase $16.2 billion shares of additional stock, expanding the buyback program announced in July to $36.2 billion.
The Motley Fool November 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Big Buybacks Some big companies are planning big buybacks, benefiting investors. IBM... Pfizer... etc.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2005 Rich Smith	Lights Dim at Central Parking Shareholders in Central Parking haven't seen a penny in capital gains on their investment since 1996. The outlook remains bleak for this pure-play parking company.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Steven Mallas	Kraft's Confident Buyback Plan The supermarket staple serves up another helping of share repurchases. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Rich Duprey	Don't Buy the Buyback Hype Are share buybacks little more than a tool for management to massage earnings? As for the benefit to individual shareholders, is it all it's cracked up to be?
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 David Henry	Why The Flurry Of Buybacks? In the U.S., low rates and lagging prices are prompting companies to repurchase shares in a hurry.
The Motley Fool July 3, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Chuck's Cheese Shared at Schwab The discount broker spreads the wealth around. The leading discount stock broker saw its shares climb 7% yesterday after announcing a massive buyback and a special one-time dividend.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Time Warner The on- and off-line media magnate reports second-quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow morning. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool February 8, 2005	Why Share Buybacks Matter Should you think favorably of a company buying back shares of its own stock? In many cases, yes.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Brian Lawler	Sciele's Blue-Moon Buyback The specialty pharmaceutical surprisingly renews its share repurchase plan.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2006	All EPS Increases Aren't Alike Don't assume that a stock's surging EPS is great news.
CFO June 15, 2012 Vincent Ryan	Plenty of Ammo Left in Buyback Plans U.S. firms have repurchased more than one-third the dollar amount of shares that their buyback programs allow.
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.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Expedia Gives an Amsterdam Expedia turns to a Dutch tender offer to gobble down as much as 42% of its outstanding shares.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2006 Seth Jayson	Bad Advice on Buybacks The point of a buyback is not to "move" the stock -- not over the short term. The point of a buyback is to increase shareholder value in the long run by giving existing shareholders a bigger cut of future economic benefits.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2010 Esterhuizen & Sellitti	5 Undervalued Companies Buying Back Their Own Stock The following stocks are undervalued relative to their average target prices, and these companies have announced stock buybacks over recent weeks: Dillard's... Scholastic Corporation... Veeco Instruments... GameStop... Integrated Device Technology...
The Motley Fool May 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Central Parking Pulls In Analysts for Central Parking have been totally, wildly off the mark in predicting the company's earnings in each of the past two quarters. What new surprises will Central Parking spring when it reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 numbers?
The Motley Fool August 11, 2005 Rich Smith	Happy Birthday to Standard The garage operator closed out its first year as a public company on June 30. Considering that analysts expect to see 10% long-term growth from Standard, its stock may not be an outright bargain, but it's not severely overpriced, either.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2007 Tim Beyers	Biogen's $3 Billion Bet There are times when a buyback is not only appropriate, but also smart. This is one of those times for Biogen Idec. It's a chance for management to deliver huge returns to long-suffering shareholders.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Brinker Takes a Smaller Bite One can argue that there are no victims here. Shareholders are happy because their stock is trading higher. However, Brinker could have spared itself all of the fuss had it just announced a more conventional buyback.
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 October 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	When Dollars Run Dry Family Dollar and Dollar General are buying back stock, 10 million shares at a time. Will the market follow?
The Motley Fool June 13, 2005 Timothy M. Otte	Share Repurchase Signals What exactly does a share repurchase indicate about a company these days? What does mean to investors? Here is a look at share-repurchase trends in places like Autozone, Target, Wal-Mart, Dell, Costco...
The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Rich Duprey	Pennies on the Dollar Tree Management at the discounter announces a $500 million share buyback; investors ought to ask themselves: Is Dollar Tree a good buy now?
The Motley Fool March 6, 2008 Rich Smith	Juniper's Billion-Buck Buyback But who will reap the rewards?
The Motley Fool October 24, 2005 Rich Smith	Why, Oh, Weyerhauser? Is a share buyback best for this debt-ridden wood products company?
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Alex Dumortier	Don't Buy Into People's United's Buyback People's United's new buyback program doesn't mean you should buy.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Rich Duprey	Buybacks Can Predict Profits Use management's signal flag of an undervalued stock to make market-beating profits.
The Motley Fool October 24, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Not Biting on Brinker Brinker's latest quarter was tasty, raising the stock as high as $45.78 in early trading.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	This Biotech Thinks It's Cheap Amgen thinks its investors aren't valuing the company properly. It's offering to repurchase $5 billion worth of stock -- about 10% of its value -- and even willing to borrow the cash to get it done.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2005 Steven Mallas	IBM's in the Market The wise thing here is to buy, hold, and reinvest all dividends. With the sale of the company's PC business and an opportunity for video-game gold with the company's deal to supply chips to Microsoft's Xbox 360, perhaps Big Blue will see better times ahead.
The Motley Fool July 3, 2007 Rich Smith	Steel Dynamics Gets Busy There is no value prop here for shareholders. Rather than a buyback, a better move for Steel Dynamics would be to pay down a bit of its debt load.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Did Mirant Cave In? On the heels of a failed bid to acquire NRG Energy, and vocal agitation from private-equity group Pirate Capital, Mirant has announced plans for a share buyback via a Dutch auction tender offer. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2007 Rich Smith	Nordstrom Doubles Down Fresh from completing its last buyback of $1 billion worth of shares, the retailer announced that it's digging into its purse for another $1.5 billion worth of spare change with which to finance a shopping spree on its own shares.
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Emil Lee	Are Buybacks Best? Without a doubt, share repurchases are one of the best uses of a company's excess capital. Here's why investors should get interested anytime they hear a company's planning to buy back its own shares.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2006 Rich Duprey	Hibbett's Holiday Sales Sacked It looks as though the sporting goods retailer may miss guidance for the fourth quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 Rich Smith	Netflix's Hundred-Mil Buyback Netflix plans to buy $100 million of its own stock over the course of this year.
Entrepreneur October 2006 C.J. Prince	Buyback Bonanza Big companies with excess cash have jumped on the buyback bandwagon and are milking it for all it's worth. Should you do the same?
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Stephen Ellis	American Greetings Trundles Toward Extinction The struggling greeting cards company is making some questionable decisions with shareholder capital. Investors, take note.
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.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2011 Shubh Datta	Why I Love Ebix's $75 Million Buyback Program The software and e-commerce solutions provider plans to buyback nearly $75 million worth of shares.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Bill Mann	Cisco Might Pay Dividend John Chambers hints that he might return some cash to shareholders. That would be great.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2008 Timothy M. Otte	Share Repurchase: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Share repurchases rarely signal an undervalued stock price.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison	Boring Best Buy's Boost News of an increased dividend and buyback program are business as usual for consumer electronics giant Best Buy.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2011 Sean Williams	Holy Share Buyback, Batman! Who said share buybacks were dead?
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dueling Fools: Buybacks Aren't dividends a form of surrender? Isn't a company simply shrugging its shoulders and passing the buck when it distributes owned or leveraged greenbacks? The buyback's the thing.
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