This report expands through early 2011 studies of the raw performance (profitability) of $383.5 billion of buybacks … improved the profitability of past buybacks. Since a year ago, stock prices for the sampled group are up about 33.2%, in line …

board of director members' interests with shareholder interests improves the economic profitability of firms. The hypothesis …

This report expands into early 2013 studies of the raw performance (profitability) of $457.6 billion of buybacks …. For the group overall, after 13 years, repurchased shares today are worth 13.0% more than their cost. That profit on … significantly worse. This survey ranks each of 232 individual companies' buyback statistics by:• Percentage buyback profit (return …

debt structure, and the effect of this on corporate profitability. The assumption on which the study was based is that, if … profitability but no significant relationship between firm's working capital composition and profitability. The results, however … profitability is positively affected. The study therefore recommends that, for firms to optimize profitability and to maintain good …

This paper examines the value effect of inventory investment on profitability for a large sample of UK SMEs over a ten … access to finance. Inventory investment relationship to profitability is negative for both financially constrained and … unconstrained SMEs. However, the negative effect of inventory investment on profitability is more sever in financially constrained …

an earlier study back to 2000 to look at profitability of $263 billion of buybacks executed by a sample of 273 … buybacks. While this studies' reporting methodology tends to significantly overstate buyback profitability, only 25% of buyback …: • Largest percentage profit (return on cash invested in buybacks)• Largest percentage benefit (consequent change in stock price …