Re:Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock bu...
by bcrescimanno on Monday February 27, 2012 @08:48PM
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Theoretically, fewer public shares means that the value should go up (basic supply and demand curve). Apple could then sell their shares at the higher price and effectively earn a return (the reality of how this would happen is more complex--but it all adds up to this basic premise).
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Re:Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock bu...
by adamtmca on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:31PM
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The act of re-issuing the shares would have the opposite effect on supply, causing the price to go back down. You can't create profits by retiring and then reissuing shares.
Re:Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock bu...
by bcrescimanno on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:46PM
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We aren't talking about re-issuing shares--we're talking about buying them back to be re-issued at a later date. The act of buying them back would shrink the supply and (in theory) drive up the price.
Re:Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock bu...
by adamtmca on Thursday March 01, 2012 @01:38PM
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You are ignoring the growth in supply that would happen because of the re-issue.
Re:Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock bu...
by bcrescimanno on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:09PM
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Presumably, the stock would be reissued at a point where forces other than supply & demand would have had an impact on the price as well. Yes, the additional available shares on the market would cause a dip--but that dip would not necessarily negate the other effects that (could have) impacted the stock price since the buy-back.
I'm not ignoring the effect; I'm just not viewing it in vacuum.
Re:Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock bu...
by wmf on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:25PM
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No, you can't buy a stock (causing it to go up) and then sell at the higher price; that would be creating profit out of nowhere. And aren't bought-back shares destroyed?