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| Category: Stock Buybacks This category includes articles that deal with the corporate practice of repurchasing outstanding equity, usually for the purpose of manipulating stock prices upwards and often associated with the exercise of stock options by corporate executives. Securities fraud By John Schroy, on November 4th, 2006 |  3 comments  A basic principle of US security law is that material misstatements and omissions of fact in connection with the purchase and sale of any security are violations to be sanctioned. Corporations have argued that stock buybacks are equivalent to dividends. This article explains why this is not true and why suggesting buyback-dividend equivalency may constitute fraud. November 4th, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: class-action litigation, Corporate Governance, dividends, SEC Rule 10b-18, Stock Buybacks, US SEC | Category: Stock Buybacks, featured | 3 comments |  Short urlStock buybacks By John Schroy, on November 3rd, 2006 | Leave a comment  Trial lawyers are showing interest in the apparent conflict of interest when insiders use stockholders’ money to buy back shares on the theory that they are undervalued, and at the same time are unloading their own shares. Legal action in this direction could threaten the equity market, given the importance of stock buybacks in keeping prices up. If stock buybacks were to cease, for any reason, the market could crash, which might wake the SEC from its slumbers. November 3rd, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Corporate Governance, executive stock options, Harvard Business Review, Lerach Coughlin, Stock Buybacks, US SEC, Warren Buffett | Category: Stock Buybacks | Leave a comment | Short urlQ2 2006 By John Schroy, on October 6th, 2006 | 2 comments  Net share repurchases by nonfinancial nonfarm corporations ran at an annual rate of $554.8 billion, about the same level as in Q1 2006 and more than ten times the level of 2001 and five times the level of 2000, the peak of the Great Bubble. Amounts paid to exiting shareholders (including holders of executive options and short sellers) exceeded amounts paid equitably to all shareholders as regular dividends by 44%. October 6th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Corporate Governance, executive stock options, Stock Buybacks | Category: Stock Buybacks | 2 comments | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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