Share repurchase

In the summer of 2007, William Ackman Attained 9.6% of Target’s outstanding shares. As an activist shareholder, William Ackman had a goal to work with Target’s management and bring up their share price while also working to get on the board of directors. There were three critical changes Ackman wanted to bring about Target’s operations: selling Target 's credit card business, increasing its stock buyback program, and selling a portion of their real estate holdings. With those three changes,…

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. was shorted on April 22nd, at $440.95 per shares with a total of 200 shares. Using technical analysis, I saw a decline in the stock price occurring. The price trend generated a descending triangle pattern which broke through and went below the support line of $600 and continued to decrease. The MACD of -8.39 also depicted a negative moving momentum. The volume significantly rose, but then decreased which means less people are purchasing the stock, making the stock…

NG HSIU PING 237801 A case study related to customers’ evaluations about the effect of price promotion in coffee chain stores Promotional pricing can be defined as the sales promotion strategy which consists reducing the price of a goods or services in order to attract more customers, retain old customers and maximize the sales volume or revenue in food and beverage industry (mbaskool). (Raghubir and Corfman,1999) mentioned price promotion are mutual strategy and it used to reduce the price…

contrast, Lewellen et al. (1978) found quite a weak supportive evidence of the clientele effect hypothesis by on the database used in studies of Petti(1977) Besides that Eltoon and Gruber (1970) also show empirical evidence about the relationship between share price and ex-dividend day. However, what they found was that the stock price decrease and it is less than the amount of dividend on ex-dividend. Besides that, they also found that the relationship of stock’s dividend yield on ex-dividend…

repurchase or otherwise continue using the brand and can be established by repeated buying of a product or service or other positive behaviours such as word of mouth advocacy (Dick and Kunal, 1994). Brand loyalty is more than simple repurchasing, however, customers may repurchase a brand due to situational constraints (such as vendor lock-in), a lack of possible alternatives, or out of convenience (Jones et al., 2002). Such loyalty is referred to as "spurious loyalty". True brand loyalty exists…

white knight is viewed as a preferred option to the hostile company completing their takeover. Unlike a hostile takeover, current management typically remains in place in a white knight scenario, and investors receive better compensation for their shares. The white knight is the savior of a company in the middle of a hostile takeover. Often, company officials seek out a white knight – sometimes to preserve the company's core business, and other times just to negotiate better takeover terms. An…

to one body as to which differed from Grey, as there was only a disposition of equitable interest. Subsequently, Mr Vandervell was still entitled to pay tax to the Inland Revenue because of the option the Vandervell Trustees Ltd. had, to repurchase the shares from Royal College of Surgeons. The exact terms of the trust had not been spelt out which means no one knew who held the equitable trust; hence the court held there was a resulting trust to Mr Vandervell. From this case the importance of…

Security Analysis Common Stock (KS) • Earnings Per Share Earnings per share is the portion of a company’s profits distributed to each share of common stock that is outstanding. Earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income by the number of total shares outstanding (Ross 26). Apple Inc.’s 10-K lists earnings per share in two categories, basic a diluted. Basic earnings per share are calculated by dividing available income to common shareholders by the weighted-average number…

It is noted that, in early 2000s Best Buy was a magnet for shoppers. The customers thronged and unflinchingly bought at Best Buy. Fast forward to 2012, and Best Buy is seemingly no longer a favorite among consumers. However, despite the troubles, Best Buy still remains a top-of-mind reference among electronics shoppers. Almost a third of the more than 8,000 consumers monthly indicate they shop most often at Best Buy for electronics ahead of Wal-Mart (commanding 20%) as well as rival Amazon.com…

in 2015 it was 9.29%. By the wholesale net sales for the fourth quarter decreased in 2016, it was $251.5 million compared to $265.0 million in the same quarter of 2015. This decrease was caused by the decreased of sales in the Madden Women’s division. In the Madden Women’s division, the sales declined in the cold weather accessories and in the private label footwear. In 2015, the net sales were stronger in the wholesale footwear and accessories segments. One reason for the increase in 2015 was…