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 -
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 -
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 -
Credit Suisse tapped the Swiss National Bank for as much as 50 billion francs ($54 billion) and offered to repurchase debt.
— Sagarika Jaisinghani, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023 -
When prices theoretically come back down in the future, the traders then repurchase the stock at a cheaper price to return it and pocket the difference.
— Nick Wells,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 July 2024 -
Boeing agreed to repurchase that specific plane, which was able to land without serious injury for crew or passenger.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 July 2024
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