• Advance common sense gun safety regulations (including gun buybacks) and vigorously enforce those regulations.

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/letters-to-the-editor-lets-look-to-the-future-in-house-district-10/

Aggregate buybacks declined sequentially as companies with an opportunistic approach were less active, and some stayed on the sidelines altogether.

Source: https://www.etftrends.com/energy-infrastructure-channel/mlp-midstream-buybacks-slow-steady-1q23/

And Shell is still looking out for shareholders, announcing $3 billion in share buybacks.

Source: https://investorplace.com/market360/2023/07/7-energy-stocks-primed-to-give-your-portfolio-a-massive-charge/

And so just if we'd see a ramp in distribution growth or buybacks, if it looks like you all were drifting into call it mid-2s or even low-2s.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4598988-enterprise-products-partners-l-p-epd-q1-2023-earnings-call-transcript?source=feed_all_articles

Any thoughts on shifting away from the base dividend program in favor of more buybacks.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4614238-chesapeake-energy-natural-gas-pricing-presents-an-opportunity?source=feed_all_articles

Aside from share buybacks, Cardinal Health is also paying a quarterly dividend to distribute cash to its shareholders.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4606963-cardinal-health-not-long-term-investment?source=feed_all_articles

As the Democratic staff of the House Oversight and Reform Committee reported in December 2021, the largest drug companies spent more on dividends and stock buybacks ($578 billion) than R&D ($522 billion) from 2016 through 2020.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-10-11/column-big-drugmakers-are-whining-about-having-to-negotiate-with-medicare-but-they-cant-afford-not-to

Autoliv has an activist investor onboard ensuring that dividends and share buybacks reward shareholders.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4567476-autoliv-brand-neutral-dividend-play-auto-industry?source=feed_all_articles

BARK holds a substantial amount of cash, making up nearly 40% of its market cap, which provides flexibility for debt reduction and share buybacks, but I believe that stabilizing its operations should be the primary focus.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4637850-bark-waiting-for-show-me-moment?source=feed_all_articles

Biden floated several ideas that have no shot with a Republican majority in the House: quadrupling the tax on corporate stock buybacks, increasing taxes on the wealthy, banning assault weapons, and so on.

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/02/10/editorial-plenty-to-discuss-in-state-of-the-union-but-the-debt-ceiling-is-nonnegotiable/

BP has said it will use a considerable portion of its surplus cash flow, 60%, to stock buybacks which I am not a fan of.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4606672-bp-oil-at-70-its-time-to-sell?source=feed_all_articles

Campaigners are continuing to raise concerns about energy profiteering in the wake of the latest announcement of record profits and there have been calls for a tax on share buybacks.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/23327797.scottish-gas-owner-give-500m-shareholders-record-profits/?ref=rss

Charter has gone nuts with share buybacks.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4584914-the-decline-of-charter-communications?source=feed_all_articles

Companies say they do stock buybacks to consolidate ownership, stabilize stock prices or return value to shareholders.

Source: https://ncnewsline.com/2023/08/24/report-ceos-who-pay-poorly-do-fabulously/

Considering Union Pacific spent in the last quarter another $120 million to repurchase its shares, bringing the total amount spent on buybacks at $750 million so far.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4632823-union-pacific-what-dilemma?source=feed_all_articles

Dividends have grown at a CAGR of +6%, while the company has regularly conducted buybacks.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4660086-church-and-dwights-superiority-dynamic-consumer-landscape-chd?source=feed_all_articles

Ellacott expects dividends to remain high this year but said oil prices would probably have to increase from the current level to sustain the volume of share buybacks seen in 2022.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/02/08/big-oil-faces-scrutiny-after-huge-jump-in-profits/

Even though I am generally not a huge fan of share buybacks, when the stock is this low, it would be almost a breach of fiduciary responsibility for a business that's generating attractive cash flows to not buy back stock.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4631258-group-1-automotive-still-on-sale?source=feed_all_articles

“Following the inclusion, we expect UBER to lean into growth and share buybacks, which should increase investor sentiment for…

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/7ffb57595714d825?ref=ff

For 2022, Apple paid a total of $14,793 million in dividends and made buybacks of $89,402 million.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4602414-apple-why-you-should-take-a-bite?source=feed_all_articles