Wall Street Loves it, I HATE it!

Easiest way for a CEO to hit an earnings per share target and get their bonus is a stock buyback.

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Let stock buybacks die

By David Nelson, CFA COVID-19 has done more than bring the world economy to its knees. It’s forcing decisions about life and death beyond that of our neighbors and loved ones. The actions of government and now the Federal Reserve includes a rescue package $Trillions in scope whose current goal is to return the status […]

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Let’s be careful out there!

By David Nelson, CFA CMT Despite all the noise about using their new found wealth to expand CAPEX Goldman data points to stock buybacks increasing by 13% to just shy of $1Trillion for 2019. Politics aside CEOs continue to take the easy way out. Readers know my position on buybacks as being overused and often a […]

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Stock Buybacks Do Nothing for Sales or Income – just EPS

$SPYB – Companies mortgage their future to goose the bottom line

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Buybacks in focus on Capital Hill

David says the reason companies buyback stock are a lot more “sinister.”

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Post Trump Rally Trades – NYSE

https://youtu.be/c1XRJJnLGLc David joins the gang for CNBC’s Closing bell with Sara Eisen & Bill Griffeth. David and Mike Santoli go head to head over Stock Buybacks

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Drop in Q4 earnings shows the rise of financial engineering

David sits with Scott Gamm anchor for theStreet.com to discuss the fall in corporate earnings and why financial engineering is taking center stage.

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CEO’s are selling the future to prop up their compensation

https://youtu.be/iL7JBD-qH00 David sits down with CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to discuss stock buybacks. Many believe they are good for shareholders but are they really?

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