Stock Buybacks

Portfolio Management
April 2026

Share Repurchases and Investment Policies

Research

21 Pages

This study examines the claim that share repurchases lead to reductions in real investments and finds no support for the claim that repurchases lead to lower real investments.

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Portfolio Management
April 2026

When Resilience Resonates: The S&P 500 Resilient Shareholder Yield Index

S&P Global

Elizabeth Bebb

Research

19 Pages

The S&P 500 Resilient Shareholder Yield Index identifies companies that balance rewarding shareholders with the financial strength needed to sustain those rewards over time.

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Portfolio Management
March 2026

SBC & Dilution Tracker Dashboard Launch

Altimeter Capital

Thomas Reiner

Research

11 Pages

Thomas Reiner gives an update on quarterly stock-based compensation and dilution analytics and a live company leaderboard.

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Dividends
March 2026

Data Update 8 for 2026: Time for Harvesting – Dividends and Buybacks

Aswath Damodaran

Research

9 Pages

Professor Damodaran looks at the decision by businesses on how much cash to return to their owners, and in what form (dividends or buybacks), and how that decision played out globally in 2025.

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Markets
December 2025

Tech Dilution Through Q3: Discipline Cracks at Big Tech

Platform Aeronaut

Thomas Reiner

Article

10 Pages

Thomas Reiner reviews how share based dilution has evolved across tech through Q3 2025, with discipline slipping at Big Tech.

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Markets
December 2025

Does Share Repurchase Legalization Really Harm Corporate Investments?

Elliot Tobin, Charles Wang

Research

56 Pages

Using staggered legalizations across countries, the authors test whether permitting open-market buybacks reduces corporate investment and real activity.

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Portfolio Management
October 2024

Buybacks for US, Dividends for EU

Verdad

Chris Satterthwaite

Research

4 Pages

Verdad’s deep dive on shareholder yield finds it “does a relatively good job of spreading returns in a linear fashion, both in the US and abroad.”

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Portfolio Management
March 2020

Examining Share Repurchasing and the S&P Buyback Indices in the U.S. Market

S&P Global

Liyu Zeng, Priscilla Luk

Research

27 Pages

S&P Dow Jones Indices examines how share repurchases evolved into the dominant corporate payout method and how related indices behave.

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