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Study shows stock buybacks fail to create value ... on average

posted 810 weeks ago on BloggingStocks
Filed under: Insiders, Law, Competitive strategyStandard & Poor's has studied the impact of stock buybacks and reached some pretty disconcerting findings. As stock buybacks have soared in popularity and become a favorite demand of activist investors, S&P found that they might not be so great after all. As the company put it: "Conventional wisdom holds that (1) stock prices go up as a result of buybacks, (2) more buybacks are better than fewer buybacks, and (3) announced share buybacks actually reduce the number of outstanding shares significantly. "Based on a study of buybacks conducted by S&P's Equity Research Services of the 18 months ended June 30, 2007, we believe that all three points were unsupported by the data during that period." This may be
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