The controversy around share buybacks
Behind the Money
Topher Forhecz
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Share buybacks are a strategy companies use to return excess cash to their shareholders. But recently, they’ve exploded in popularity, and that’s sparked strong discussions inside financial circles. The FT’s US financial editor Brooke Masters explains why share buybacks have become so hotly debated.
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| 0:29.7 | There's a certain topic in financial circles that no matter who you are, everyone seems to have an opinion on it. |
| 0:39.0 | Share buybacks are one of the single most controversial issues in corporate governance. |
| 0:44.6 | That's Brooke Masters. |
| 0:46.0 | She's the F.T.'s US financial editor. |
| 0:48.3 | And she's talking about the practice of what's called share or stock |
| 0:51.9 | buybacks. |
| 0:53.0 | They're a way for companies to return excess cash to their shareholders, |
| 0:57.0 | and in recent years they've exploded in popularity. |
| 1:01.0 | To give you a sense of this trend that in 2012 there were |
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