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The Corporate Calendar and the Timing of Share Repurchases and Equity Compensation

Harvard Corporate Governance

The growth in buyback volumes over the past two decades has raised concerns that CEOs are misusing share repurchases to maximize their own personal wealth at the expense of long-term shareholder value. In our paper , we take a fresh look at the question of whether CEOs use share buybacks to sell equity at inflated stock prices.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

Law 360 M&A

Multimillion-dollar e-cigarette settlements, $4 billion in stock buybacks and a $6.1 Also on the docket: a Panama port project, a news outlet's defamation case, drone disputes and a flood of mail from Tesla shareholders. million appraisal tweak were among the big-dollar items logged in the Delaware Court of Chancery's ledger last week.

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Stock Buybacks and Family Businesses

Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

Stock buybacks were in the news last week as the newly-passed Inflation Reduction Act includes a provision levying a 1% excise tax on share repurchases by public companies. As we’ve noted in previous posts, we question Congress’s grasp of the basic economics of what a stock buyback is, but Congress is not our focus today.

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Comment on We Need a Lobbyist by Mike Ford, AGAâ„¢

Appraisers Blog

Partly to facilitate their own ‘fraudulently supported , quota driven deceptive buyback demands…and lenders that are unaware that FNMA has never yet won an arbitration case against a lender on these arising from a credibly proven bad appraisal., A website manager (not host) & news editor is desperately needed.

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Reaping the Whirlwind: A September 2022 Inflation Update!

Musings on Markets

As you have probably noticed, perceptions of where the economy is headed have worsened, as we have gone through 2022, even in the face of relatively good news on unemployment. That buyback number has largely recovered from its COVID swoon, and hit an all time high in 2021, with $734 billion in stock buybacks, across the S&P 500 companies.

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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

Musings on Markets

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. To illustrate the heat that buybacks evoke, consider two stories in the last two weeks where they have been in the news.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

If equity markets surprised us with their resilience in 2020, not just weathering a pandemic for the ages, but prospering in its midst, US equity markets, in particular, managed to find light even in the darkest news stories, and continued their rise through 2021.