Summary: Are stock buybacks a good idea? Photo Viktor Hanacek. Source: Picjumbo When companies generate extra cash, they can do four different things with it. They can invest in their own business, through capital expenditures, they can invest in another business, via mergers and acquisitions, they can pay dividends to shareholders, or they can buy back their own shares. Investors tend to like dividends and buybacks. It puts money in their pockets, rather than sitting in the corporate […]
