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Since Going Public in 2015, PayPal Has Spent $19 Billion on This 1 Thing

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Since going public in 2015, financial technology (fintech) company PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) has generated tens of billions of dollars in profits. It's not only important to know how a company makes money -- it's also important to know how that money is spent. Year Shares repurchased Money spent 2015 0 $0 2016 27.3

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These 3 Companies Have Collectively Repurchased $1.07 Trillion of Their Own Stock Since the Start of 2013

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billion S&P 500 companies collectively spent on share repurchases on a trailing-12-month basis, as of Sept. The reason public companies enact share repurchase programs is threefold: For companies with steady or growing net income, a steady reduction in the number of outstanding shares can increase earnings per share (EPS) over time.

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Spring Cleaning: 3 Stocks to Say Goodbye to Right Now

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It's the second-largest public company in the world for a reason, and I don't think its stock price is about to collapse. Yet however impressive its past performance, what matters to investors is how the company will perform going forward. Year iPhone Unit Sales iPhone Revenue 2015 231.2 million $155 billion 2016 211.8

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Here Are All 7 Stocks Warren Buffett Is Selling

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Buffett and his aides dumped close to 78% of Berkshire's stake, compared to what was held on Sept. Keep in mind that selling 10 million shares only reduced Berkshire's stake in its top holding by 1.1%. billion of its own common stock since the start of 2013, which is tops among public companies.

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3 Investing Lessons from Billionaire Bill Ackman's Ownership of Chipotle Stock

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Still, it requires a perspective of seeing where a company like Chipotle could go based on its past and that of comparable enterprises. When Ackman's fund first bought its stock in 2016, Chipotle had a 10-year track record as a public company and had expanded to about 2,000 restaurants.

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Apple Has Spent $183 Billion on R&D in Less Than 12 Years -- but It's the $674 Billion Apportioned to This "Investment" That's Turning Heads

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However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching. billion in buybacks 2014 : $45 billion 2015 : $35.253 billion 2016 : $29.722 billion 2017 : $32.9 billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. Apple's capital-return program is truly on another level.

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Apple's Mammoth $700 Billion Investment Since 2013 Can't Fix Its Biggest Problem

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It became the first public company to reach a $1 trillion market cap in August 2018, and was the first to top $3 trillion in June 2023. billion in buybacks 2014 : $45 billion 2015 : $35.253 billion 2016 : $29.722 billion 2017 : $32.9 billion in buybacks 2014 : $45 billion 2015 : $35.253 billion 2016 : $29.722 billion 2017 : $32.9

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