Apple poured over $600 billion into buybacks in the decade to March 31, exceeding Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta's combined spending.

4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years — more than Tesla or Meta’s entire market value::Apple poured over $600 billion into buybacks in the decade to March 31, exceeding Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta’s combined spending.

  • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    as then the company is no longer saddled with their primary responsibility as making money for their stockholders.

    Hah! If only that were true.

      • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        What I’m trying to say is, these companies don’t use stock buybacks with the intention of going private. They’re doing stock buybacks to keep the stock price high, so they continue to please stockholders.

        Stockholder pleasing is unfortunately not going away anytime soon.

          • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The companies value doesn’t change, but shareholders hold X number of stock, so to them their portfolio improves.

            When companies split their stock, it’s to keep the price at a reasonable amount for people to buy - when 1 stock is worth $100 it makes the “minimum buy-in” very high. If the stock is split 1:10, the share price drops by 10x but all shareholders get 10x more share, so it doesn’t affect them much.

            Ultimately listed companies work for shareholders’ benefit.