Re:Alphabet slides 5% after missing earnings expectations on...
by GCA10 on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:32PM
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Total market capitalization is roughly $500 billion. So buying back $2.3 billion of shares only shrinks the number of shares by less than 0.5%. That improves EPS by all of about 3 cents. Not enough to matter.
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