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stock buyback — A corporation s purchase of its own outstanding stock, usually in order to raise the company s earnings per share. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * stock buyback UK US noun [C] STOCK MARKET, FINANCE ► SHARE BUYBACK(Cf. ↑ … Financial and business terms
stock buyback — noun a corporation s purchase of its own outstanding stock; increases earnings/share so stock price rises (which can discourage a takeover attempt) • Hypernyms: ↑purchase * * * buyback (def. 3) … Useful english dictionary
buyback — The covering of a short position by purchasing a long contract, usually resulting from the short sale of a commodity. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary See: short covering, stock buyback. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary Also used in the context of… … Financial and business terms
buyback — noun the act of purchasing back something previously sold • Syn: ↑redemption, ↑repurchase • Derivationally related forms: ↑buy back, ↑redeem (for: ↑redemption), ↑repurchase … Useful english dictionary
Stock split — A stock split or stock divide increases the number of shares in a public company. The price is adjusted such that the before and after market capitalization of the company remains the same and dilution does not occur. Options and warrants are… … Wikipedia
buyback — /buy bak /, n. 1. the buying of something that one previously sold. 2. any arrangement to take back something as a condition of a sale, as by a supplier who agrees to purchase its customer s goods. 3. Also called stock buyback. a repurchase by a… … Universalium
Stock dilution — is a general term that results from the issue of additional common shares by a company. This increase in common shares of a stock can result from a secondary market offering, employees exercising stock options, or by conversion of convertible… … Wikipedia
buyback — buy·back / bī ˌbak/ n: an act or instance of buying something back; esp: the repurchase by a corporation of shares of its own common stock on the open market Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
buyback — ☆ buyback [bī′bak΄ ] n. 1. an agreement to buy something in return, as by a supplier to buy its customer s product 2. a sale whereby something sold is repurchased from the buyer by the seller or original owner 3. Finance the buying by a… … English World dictionary
stock — physical items ( inventory) that a business uses in its production process or has for sale in the ordinary course of doing business. Glossary of Business Terms Ownership of a corporation indicated by shares, which represent a piece of the… … Financial and business terms
