{"id":709288,"date":"2010-04-05T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:418949"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:53:00","slug":"rising-stock-buybacks-having-limited-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/709288","title":{"rendered":"Rising stock buybacks having limited impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stock buybacks are on the rise again but the impact to investors may not be all that great, says David Rosenberg,chief economist and strategist, Gluskin Sheff &amp; Associates. Rising dividends, on the other hand, are definitely good news.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>While share repurchases have increased 37% quarter-over-quarter and almost 100% from the 2009 lows, the vast majority of companies have bought back stock only to offset dilution from expiring stock options, Mr. Rosenberg noted to clients.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, just 50 of 214 buybacks resulted in share count reductions. <\/p>\n<p>A more constructive trend, he said, is that companies are starting to pay out more of their retained earnings in dividends. In the first quarter, net dividend increases equaled $5.1-billion, the most since the fourth quarter of 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=418949\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock buybacks are on the rise again but the impact to investors may not be all that great, says David Rosenberg,chief economist and strategist, Gluskin Sheff &amp; Associates. Rising dividends, on the other hand, are definitely good news.&nbsp; While share repurchases have increased 37% quarter-over-quarter and almost 100% from the 2009 lows, the vast majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yw8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}