Word: buybacks
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...perfect match--say 100 million options exercised and 100 million shares repurchased--the all-important net effect on earnings per share is nil. But investors generally don't appreciate that. They see a huge stock buyback and assume it's positive because buybacks have traditionally reduced the number of shares outstanding, and that increased earnings per share and made each share more valuable...
...plenty of companies still buy back shares for the right reasons. Deflated by the Firestone flap, Ford has increased and expedited a huge buyback unveiled last spring. The company plainly believes its woes are overblown, and many analysts agree. The stock is down 17% in two months and looks like a screaming bargain to some. I'm not so sure, given the bad publicity the Ford Explorer is getting...
...other opportunities and, increasingly, leveraging up to the point where their debt becomes riskier to the institutions that buy it. More risk requires more reward. So borrowing costs rise. This year Moody's has lowered the debt rating of 29 companies at least partly because of costly new buyback programs. All last year, there were just eight buyback-related downgrades...
...national buyback program with meaningful cash or tax-credit incentives should be established and adequately funded--in the past year a number of state and city buyback programs ran out of funds and thereby allowed guns to circulate that could have been collected and destroyed...
...assault weapons should be banned from manufacture and sale throughout the United States. Such a ban is already in effect in a number of states. Furthermore, a buyback program should be created to focus especially on semiautomatic and multiple-cartridge weapons--the sort that are made to kill other human beings...