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Category: Capital Allocation

Optimal capital allocation is the CEO’s number one job.

Share Buybacks, Dividends and Optimal Capital Allocation

Posted on June 28, 2023July 2, 2023

A company repurchasing its own shares may suggest that it is no longer able to reinvest its excess cash at high rates of return. Take IBM in the past ten years. Its share repurchase program, even at a so-called “deep discount”, was not necessarily welcomed as it was perceived as potentially impeding innovation and long…

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