The Semantics Around Apple's Buybacks [The Motley Fool]
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Stop demonizing share repurchases. If you assume that Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) will buy back another $20 billion in stock in the fourth quarter, since the company has bought back more than that on average every quarter this year, the iPhone maker will almost certainly end up buying back over $80 billion in 2018. With that kind of money, you could buy entire companies, including Tesla , Caterpillar , Sony , T-Mobile , or Goldman Sachs , among many others. While there's no debate around the sheer size of Apple's repurchase program, we should really address how we discuss those buybacks. Image source: Apple. Demonizing buybacks Consider a CNN article yesterday about Apple's announcement that it is building a $1 billion campus deep in the heart of Texas , correctly pointing out that the company is giving far more to shareholders . Meanwhile, Senator Marco Rubio bemoaned in an op-ed at The Atlantic that so many companies are using savings from tax r
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