It makes shareholders more geared, raising share-price volatility.
SHARE options and buybacks are to the 1990s what leveraged buyouts were to the 1980s: the markets' favourite way of raising share prices.
However this method may have the perverse effect of incentivising managers to focus their efforts on raising share prices in the short-term.
Buybacks raised share prices and boosted the earnings-per-share ratio, on which many executives' compensation is based.
He also looks at conditions that could raise share prices, like stock buybacks, favorable investor sentiment or merger potential.
If the job number comes in close to his 100,000 prediction, it could raise share prices, Mr. Cheney said.
THE market rally that has raised share prices by more than 70 percent had its first birthday this month, and it still seems to be roaring along.
[C2.] Borders Moves to Raise Share Price The bookseller Borders Group has hired Merrill Lynch to explore steps it might take to bolster its faltering stock price.
Westfeldt accomplished the impossible, persuading the studio to sell the rights back to her and her partner, Heather Juergensen, so they could make the film on money raised share by share.
Jubilation at the landslide win of Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) on December 16th raised share prices to the rafters.The markets were celebrating a slide in the yen, which may make ailing Japanese exporters such as Sharp, an electronics firm, more competitive.
To raise share prices, Foxconn should reexamine its "non-core assets" to ensure they make money, the investment consultant says.
