{"id":213019,"date":"2024-10-03T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=213019"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:21:04","slug":"are-buybacks-back-2024-showing-improvement-after-hitting-a-low-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/are-buybacks-back-2024-showing-improvement-after-hitting-a-low-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Buybacks Back? 2024 Showing Improvement After Hitting a Low Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After falling to their lowest level last year (in Wall Street Horizon&#8217;s eight years of data), the total number of announced global corporate buybacks has been improving throughout 2024. Higher borrowing costs and recession fears have a tendency to lead US corporations to hoard cash rather than allocate it to stock repurchase programs, which have been popular in the last decade. However, as the Fed begins to lower interest rates and the economy remains strong, certain companies are starting to spend again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-heading-for-1-trillion-with-a-capital-t\"><strong>Heading for $1 Trillion with a Capital T<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, only 617 companies announced buybacks, and that was after only 649 announced in 2022, as compared to 1,319 companies doing so in 2021 and 947 in 2020, despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The large amount of buyback announcements in 2021 led to a total of $922B in repurchased stock for S&amp;P 500\u00ae&nbsp;companies in 2022, an all-time high. That fell to $795B in 2023.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by a half point two weeks ago, buyback activity is likely to pick up, and continue the upward trend seen thus far in 2024. Goldman Sachs predicts the total to reach $925B this year, surpassing the 2022 record, and moving on to cross the trillion dollar mark in 2025.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus far in the first three quarters of this year, we have recorded 565 buyback announcements for global, publicly traded companies. This is compared to 440 in the first three quarters of last year, and the 5-year average of 715.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"661\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/241002WSHBuybackAnnouncements-1-1100x661.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213059 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/241002WSHBuybackAnnouncements-1-1100x661.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/241002WSHBuybackAnnouncements-1-700x421.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/241002WSHBuybackAnnouncements-1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/241002WSHBuybackAnnouncements-1-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/241002WSHBuybackAnnouncements-1.png 1276w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/661;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Wall Street Horizon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-an-age-old-debate-are-buybacks-good-or-bad\"><strong>An Age Old Debate: Are Buybacks Good or Bad?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As interest rates fall, holding onto cash tends to become less attractive to corporations who want to deploy and put it to work. Typically, buybacks are a good thing for shareholders as well, as they artificially improve earnings per share of a company, if not actually improving earnings. Share repurchases come under fire for this reason as well, with many arguing that companies could have put the money to better use by investing it back into the company. Investors tend to prefer companies that are buying back shares while also investing in growth. A great example is the mega tech names, many of which are the largest buyers of their own stock, but also tend to invest heavily in research and development and AI, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-bottom-line\"><strong>The Bottom-Line<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Q3 earnings season set to kick-off next Friday, October 11 with reports from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallstreethorizon.com\/jpmorgan-earnings-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the big banks<\/a>, investors will want to keep an eye on buyback announcements. An increase in share repurchases would signal that corporate America is willing to part with cash once again, which could have good implications for the US economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally Posted October 3, 2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallstreethorizon.com\/blog\/Are-Buybacks-Back-2024-Showing-Improvement-After-Hitting-a-Low-Last-Year\">Are Buybacks Back? 2024 Showing Improvement After Hitting a Low Last Year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;S&amp;P 500 Q4 2023 Buybacks Increase 18.0% Compared to Q3, S&amp;P Dow Jones Indicies, Mar 18, 2024,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/sp-500-q4-2023-buybacks-increase-18-0-compared-to-q3--full-year-2023-shows-decline-of-13-8-from-2022-levels-earnings-per-share-impact-continues-to-decline-buybacks-tax-reduced-q4-operating-earnings-by-0-44-and-2023-by-0-40-302091498.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com<\/a><br>2 US Stock Buybacks to Hit $1 Trillion in 2025, Goldman Says, March 7, 2024,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-07\/us-stock-buybacks-to-hit-1-trillion-in-2025-goldman-says%E2%80%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After falling to their lowest level last year (in Wall Street Horizon&#8217;s eight years of data), the total number of announced global corporate buybacks has been improving throughout 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":586,"featured_media":213031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,22,26,3],"tags":[2406,4109],"contributors-categories":[13636],"class_list":{"0":"post-213019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-north-america","8":"category-securities","9":"category-stocks","10":"category-text-articles","11":"category-traders-insight","12":"tag-buybacks","13":"tag-stock-market","14":"contributors-categories-wall-street-horizon"},"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are Buybacks Back? 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