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10/08/15
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Originally posted by tuts
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Can I please first say that I have researched why companies but back shares but I appreciate someone with more indepth knowledge to explain why a company would lose its cash reserves by buying something it already owns. Why would it not invest elsewhere or expand operation, e.g. by way of acquisition? To me it looks like investors giving a company money to undertake activities to increase profit & value, but the company rejecting it by returning the money. This is contradiction in turns; the company listing itself on to go public & then pushing public away!
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Shares buyback is a common strategy for a listed company to reduce the number of shares by using cash/fund, normally with 3 reasons below":
1. has a tots of cash in hand and,
2. share price is low
3. Less oppotinities around to invest for the time being.
One can easily add afew more reasons...