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Buybacks Are Good
11-Apr-2006
Buyback Study Update
The 76 companies which have announced buybacks so far in 2006 have
outperformed the S&P 500 by 1.8 percentage points, while stocks announcing
buybacks in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 have outperformed the S&P by 13.7, 16.4, and
10.0, and 4.2
percentage points since inception respectively. Buyback stocks
tended to outperform particularly well in the year in which they were announced,
and they also continued to outperform in subsequent years (as can be seen in the
enumerations below).
Year-by-Year Enumeration:
2006 Buyback Performance. (Apr 11, 2006)
2005 Buyback Performance. (Apr 11, 2006)
2004 Buyback Performance. (Apr 11, 2006)
2003 Buyback Performance. (Apr 11, 2006)
2002 Buyback Performance. (Apr 11, 2006)
Articles:
Find Vic and Laurel's original buyback article here.
We're Buying 8 Companies That Buy Themselves 1/16/2003