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So companies can overspend on buybacks, continuing to repurchase even when their shares are trading at historically high levels to earnings, cash flow or book value.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Given this momentum, we are raising our 2026 outlook and doubling our share repurchase target for the year,” she said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

GM's new $20 billion shareholder repurchase plan follows the completion of its latest $6 billion plan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

They could offer to repurchase shares from shareholders monthly rather than quarterly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Kabuo pulled into a turnout one rainy afternoon and explained to her in grave tones that he intended to repurchase his parents’ property as soon as the chance arose.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

GM has repurchased nearly $30 billion in shares over the last five years and nearly $43 billion over the last decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Meta repurchased nearly $150 billion of stock between 2021 and the third quarter of last year, but nothing since then.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The first operation happened just two weeks ago on Sept. 9, in which only about $5.2 billion worth of Treasurys were repurchased despite market expectations of a larger amount.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The median bank in the group repurchased 1% of its shares, Goldberg wrote in a client note.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

After she was recaptured, Ellen was sold to slave traders but was later repurchased by abolitionists and taken north.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The process of repurchasing stock reduces the number of shares outstanding, thereby helping boost earnings per share.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Yields have continued their climb despite the Treasury Department’s efforts to stem them by repurchasing the government’s own bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The rest of the transfer was carried out by selling the gold in New York, and repurchasing it in London, the bank said, external.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Google parent Alphabet didn’t buy back any stock in the latest quarter, after repurchasing around $15.1 billion in the same period a year before.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

More than half of this was devoted to repurchasing that part of the estate at Schoenhausen which had been sold when he was a young man.

From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam