Originally Posted by Uninteresting

pretty disgusting, imo. Buy back stock when you don’t know what else to do with all that cash as it would be too obvious to pay execs more. Hewlett Packard, for example, bought back $47B in stock in 10 years. Current market cap? $19B. Here’s the unvarnished history of why and how https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/