buyback etfs

Share buybacks, along with dividends, are considered shareholder rewards, but there is additional insight to be gained from companies' repurchase efforts. Several exchange-traded funds, in some form or fashion, focus on companies that are prodigious repurchasers of their own shares, including...

Corporate America is continuing its share buyback binge, but there has not been a trickle-down effect to exchange-traded funds employing repurchases as part of their weighting methodology. For example, the PowerShares Buyback Achievers Fund (ETF) (NYSE: PKW) is off a third of a percent year-to-date...

The PowerShares Buyback Achievers Fund (ETF) (NYSE: PKW) will turn 10 in December, but PKW is not just one of the oldest exchange-traded funds dedicated to companies spending oodles of cash on repurchasing their own shares. PKW is also the king of the group with $1.62 billion in assets under...

Share repurchase programs have been an increasingly popular way for companies to deploy excess cash. Buybacks have also been increasingly vilified, as critics assert that the cash would be better used to reinvest the business, hire new workers, reduce debt or make acquisitions. The companies that...

During the course of the current bull market, one increasingly prominent theme has been companies' willingness to spend and spend big on share repurchase programs. Reduce shares outstanding, increase earnings per share and everyone winners – namely management and investors, is how buyback...