How to Use repurchase in a Sentence

repurchase

verb
  • And for this price tag, That Girl will be repurchased over and over.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 July 2024
  • The owner accepted, and the city of Boise repurchased the land.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • So far, Fox has repurchased $4.4 billion worth of shares as part of its plan.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • Less debt and more cash flow will prompt the company to repurchase shares.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The company has used its healthy free cash flows to repurchase 40% of its outstanding shares over the past 10 years.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • How will the new tax on stock buybacks affect company repurchase plans in the years ahead?
    Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • One way is to repurchase shares, which leaves the remaining shares more valuable.
    Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Also, a contract with Weidner gives the county the right to repurchase the property if the project falls through.
    Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The lawsuit, which seeks to have the city repurchase all the medallions plus pay damages, is slated for trial this summer.
    Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • In the last decade, Fortune 500 companies have repurchased more than $3 trillion worth of their own shares.
    Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The company said shares will be repurchased from the open market starting Dec. 1.
    P.r. Venkat, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, with a plan to repurchase them at lower prices and pocket the difference.
    Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 9 May 2022
  • Renault could then repurchase the stake within six years, Renault said in announcing the deal.
    New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • But Berkshire did spend $4.4 billion during the quarter to repurchase its own shares.
    Josh Funk, Fortune, 6 May 2023
  • The company spent $24.7 billion last year to repurchase shares.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Deutsche Bank’s announcement Friday to repurchase a subordinated bond came on the very first day that the lender had the right to announce it.
    Giulia Morpurgo, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The trial could have wide-ranging effects on home equity theft and the way that at least a dozen states repurchase people's houses.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 May 2023
  • The tree was usually found on land that had been given away or sold cheap by the federal government—and then had to be repurchased at very high cost.
    Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Over the past 4 quarters the company has repurchased $10 billion of shares and increased its dividend by a fifth.
    Laura Hurst, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Revenue has been growing more than 20% per quarter, and the social media giant repurchased $31 billion of its shares over the past year.
    Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • One new tax applies to companies that repurchase their stock.
    Tony Romm, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Berkshire, which repurchased $345 million of shares in the second quarter, didn’t buy back any stock during the latest selling spree.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Endeavor expects to fund the stock repurchase with cash on hand, according to a separate 8-K filing with the SEC.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Short-sellers are traders who bet that stocks will fall by borrowing shares and selling them high with the belief that they can be repurchased later at a lower cost.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Investors will also be disappointed to learn that Berkshire didn’t repurchase any of its own shares in the quarter.
    Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
  • If an incomplete weld is found, GM will offer to repurchase the vehicle.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • All of the companies kept their focus on returning cash to shareholders, and BP pledged to repurchase $3.5 billion of shares in the first half of the year, matching the pace of prior quarters.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 7 May 2024
  • On one side, thousands of people have contributed cash in an effort to repurchase the house, which the family lost in a 2018 foreclosure sale.
    oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2020
  • And Bed, Bath & Beyond isn’t even the first retailer to spend billions of dollars repurchasing its own stock on its way to bankruptcy court.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • After failing to acquire Rogers Corporation due to regulatory hurdles, DuPont took the sale proceeds and repurchased billions of dollars worth of stock at much lower levels.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024

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