Non sempre i programmi di buyback di azioni sono un'opportunità di acquisto per gli investitori: a volte conviene invece vendere. Ne è un esempio Hewlett-Packard che dal 2004 ad oggi ha riacquistato azioni proprie per un totale di quasi 60 miliardi di dollari. Peccato che la capitalizzazione di HP oggi sia inferiore ai 50 miliardi!
Per saperne di più vi raccomando l'analisi di Jason Zweig sul Wall Street Journal di sabato scorso. Secondo Zweig
buybacks by companies in the Standard and Poor's 500-stock index jumped 22% in the second quarter to $109 billion, according to Standard & Poor's.
Companies must find ways to put their excess cash to use. When the market price of a company's stock is lower than the "intrinsic value" of its business—the present worth of the cash it will generate in the future—then the company should buy back all the shares it can.
As Mr. Buffett wrote in his 1984 letter to shareholders, when the stock of a growing business with plenty of cash sells "far below" intrinsic value, then "no alternative action can benefit shareholders as surely as repurchases."
But buybacks are far from an exact science. (...)
At their worst, buybacks can be a form of corporate cannibalism. Often the unspoken motive is to use extra cash to boost earnings per share by reducing the number of shares among which the company's profits are divided. But that can be a slippery slope.
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