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Some are saying that this allows people to postpone taxes, but not really. Not in aggregate. Someone has to sell their shares for companies to buy back stocks.
by bitshiftfaced 3y ago
Some are saying that this allows people to postpone taxes, but not really. Not in aggregate. Someone has to sell their shares for companies to buy back stocks. For those who sell during the buyback, that profit is subject to taxes. Moreover, the market cap stays the same. Technically the shareholders already owned that cash they used for the buyback. All it does is move places on a report. If it were better used in R&D, that is a complaint they would be motivated to take up with management, since otherwise the buyback would be losing them money.
- orev 3y agoWouldn’t the people selling those shares already be selling them (and paying taxes) regardless of whether they’re selling to someone else or to Apple? Unless they sold with the specific knowledge the shares were going to Apple, which doesn’t really make sense. Those sellers are already going to be paying taxes no matter who they sold to, and then they’re out of the market. So if the stock price goes up, only the people who held would gain any value from it.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoWhen you have a buy back, you have more buyers in the market, which puts upward pressure on price, which increases the likeliness that someone sells (and then the increased selling puts downward pressure on the price). And I would argue that those who hold didn't actually gain any value from it, unless the stock price was lower than it should've been at the time of the buy back.