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Stock repurchase plans (Buybacks)

by Patrick Fonce, 5572 days ago
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A stock buybacks occurs when a company decides to repurchase its own shares. Before any buyback, the company must comply with the strict rules for stock repurchase plans under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Companies may decide to repurchase their stock for several reasons:
1 - This buybacks will boost the company's earnings per share because less outstanding shares will be available in the market.
2 - Availability of excess cash. The company chooses to use this cash in a repurchase plan; the company may think that its shares are selling at a discount price. (The stock price is less than what it actually worth).
3 - Acquire shares for management and employee incentive plans.
4 - Increase its amount of treasury stock so that it could be used to buy another company or for a merger. (The purchased shares are held as what is known as treasury stock).

A company repurchase plan is generally considered as a positive sign and may indicate that a company is financially healthy.

This downloader load an RSS stream from the Streetinsider.com website, downloads its content then inserts the parsed data into a database. This text database (that stores stock buyback plans) could be used later for testing and backtesting purpose. It can also be used to plot the repurchase plan dates on charts.

Some information about this custom database:
Database name: stock_buybacks
Column - Date: the news publication date
Column - Title: the news title


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