Vodafone Launches £1bn Share Buyback
News Vodafone has launched a billion-pound share repurchase scheme in the wake of the company's Tuesday share slump, in a bid to prove the current share price undervalues the company. On Wednesday the company said the programme would commence with...
[July 23, 2008, 10:35]
The Day Ahead: Electronics For Imaging Backs Up Bullishness With Bucks
News Lost in the second quarter outlook was the fact that Electronics for Imaging, which makes networked digital printing software, authorized a big stock buyback. According to officials, there's a 48-hour blackout window from the time a company...
[June 8, 2000, 14:20]
Love Goes To The Heart Of UnitedLinux Effort
News Caldera hopes the stock buyback will help it survive long enough to see an economic recovery spur more customer spending. For one, the buyback ends a deal under which Caldera had to give 45 percent of OpenServer revenue over a certain amount to...
[June 28, 2002, 11:24]
Microsoft Decides To Share The Wealth
News The company expects to spend $32bn on the one-time payout and $30bn on the stock buyback. In addition, analysts say the company generates in the range of $12bn a year in cash, meaning that even with the buyback and dividends, the company should...
[July 21, 2004, 9:25]
HP Announcements Across The Board
News Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina has taken over the chairman's post at the firm, which announced today that it was initiating a share buyback program and sees revenue growth on target for the fourth quarter.
[September 22, 2000, 15:26]
PeopleSoft Wants To Buy Back More Shares
News PeopleSoft, which is fighting a hostile takeover attempt by Oracle, announced on Monday a $200m (£108m) stock-buyback plan -- a month after it closed a slightly larger stock repurchase. The company's plan to repurchase stock will bring more shares...
[January 13, 2004, 13:30]
Lastminute Cofounder Offers To Rescue Investors
News Lane Fox has made the buyback offer to some of the participants in Lastminute's restricted "friends and family" float, according to a report in the Independent newspaper. Lastminute.com cofounder Martha Lane Fox has offered to buy back shares of...
[January 15, 2001, 15:42]
US Report: BMC Bags Boole & Babbage
News As a result of the deal, Boole & Babbage stopped its share buyback plan. BMC Software (Nasdaq: BMCS) agreed Monday to buy Boole & Babbage (Nasdaq: BOOL) in a stock swap valued at $900 million (£533 millionn).
[November 2, 1998, 15:49]
The Day Ahead: Dell's Doubters Emerge After Weak Sales
News Dell, however, made progress on the bottom line because of better component pricing, a share buyback and continuing investment income. The days where Dell Computer was cut a lot of slack are over. The company is reiterating that it can grow sales...
[August 11, 2000, 13:39]
Gateway Buys Back Stock From Time Warner
News The buyback ties up the loose ends of an October 1999 agreement under which America Online, now part of Time Warner, pledged to invest $800m in Gateway. Gateway on Tuesday said it plans to buy back just over $315m in its shares owned by Time Warner...
[November 3, 2004, 7:38]
Novell Plans New Acquisitions With $600m Fund
News We sized our buyback pretty close to what we thought would be shorted, so the effect of the shorts would be mitigated. Novell, the second-ranked seller of the Linux operating system, raised $600m in a bond offering that closed on Friday.
[July 7, 2004, 9:05]
Microsoft Anticipates Hiring Thousands
News The company also on Tuesday announced plans to return $75bn (£41bn) to shareholders over the next four years through a boosted dividend, a stock buyback and a one-time $32bn payout to investors. Microsoft expects to hire between 6,000 and 7,000...
[July 26, 2004, 11:05]
Exclusive: Apple Rallies Troops After Slump
News Jobs told staff worried about the status of their stock options that while the company can't legally re-price those options, Apple is investigating a stock buyback. After an earnings warning halved its stock within 24 hours, Apple Computer is...
[October 4, 2000, 7:55]
Google Faces New Inquiry Over Stock Options
News Google also announced its share buyback offer in a recent filing, drawing investor concern. Google said late on Monday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an informal inquiry into its issuance of stock options to insiders, yet...
[August 17, 2004, 16:35]
Vodafone Boss Survives Shareholder Attack
News The share buyback just didn't cut it. Despite a threatened rebellion, Arun Sarin has held onto his post as Vodafone chief executive. At the company's AGM today, Sarin secured re-election to the board with more than 85 per cent of proxy shares cast...
[July 26, 2006, 10:05]
Microsoft Beats Estimates But Still Disappoints
News Of course, the big news came on Tuesday, when Microsoft unveiled a plan to return $75bn to shareholders through the combination of a stock buyback, an increased dividend and a one-time payout of $32bn.
[July 23, 2004, 8:35]
Microsoft Earnings Deflated By AOL Settlement
News We are not going to have a dividend-programme change or a (new) stock-buyback commitment," Connors said. Despite beating sales targets, Microsoft reported lower fourth-quarter earnings than expected on Thursday, hit by the costs of a legal...
[July 18, 2003, 14:31]
Where On The Horizon Is Vista?
News The company answered that for the short term, it will be used toward last week's announcement of a $40bn stock buyback plan, which included an almost immediate plan to reacquire $20bn through a tender offer, and a separate plan to buy another...
[July 27, 2006, 17:20]
