We mentioned previously in this series that buybacks may not capture everything (or even the most important things) when it comes to the question of whether companies should be concentrating (by taking shares off the market) shareholder ownership or diluting (putting new shares on the market).
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Is there a metric or series of metrics which captures the best of what we learn from looking at the buybacks factor, but avoids some of its shortcomings?
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We took an independent look at the data to see whether buybacks were additive to return or not. The answer seems to be “sometimes.” Which then raises the question, “When?”
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Given the dynamics we've discussed earlier regarding buybacks, it should be no surprise to see that they tend to be additive to performance. Of course, critics acknowledge that buybacks tend to boost short-term prices. How could anyone deny that an increase of buying any asset, ceteris paribus, increases its price? But what critics miss is that gains are not limited to the short run.
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