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20 Stocks With At Least One Billion Share Buyback Plan In 2016

When corporations are profitable and established, they tend to return capital to shareholders. 

This can be achieved via stock buybacks to shrink the float and to support the stock, or it can be done via one-time dividends or by raising their annualized quarterly dividends.

In my blog, I often cover successful long-term dividend growth stocks. Those companies managed to raise dividends over a decade or half century.


I also talk a little about buyback stocks. Those gave more money back vie share repurchases which is in the end the same.


Today I would give you a short introduction into the biggest share buyback announced from the current fiscal year 2016.


As of now, we've noticed 94 companies with fresh, new, or increased buyback plans.


Here are the biggest announcements from fiscal 2016 to date...




20 Stocks With At Least One Billion Share Buyback Plan
In 2016 (click to enlarge)


Symbol
Company Name
Buyback
CSCO
Cisco Systems Inc.
$15 Bln
GILD
Gilead Sciences Inc.
$12 Bln
MMM
3M Co.
$10 Bln
CMCSA
Comcast Corp.
$10 Bln
GM
General Motors Company
$9 Bln
AMZN
Amazon.com Inc.
$5 Bln
AIG
American International Group
$5 Bln
SYMC
Symantec Corporation
$2.3 Bln
TJX
The TJX Companies, Inc.
$2 Bln
PRGO
Perrigo Co.
$1.5 Bln
K
Kellogg Company
$1.5 Bln
TRI
Thomson Reuters Corporation
$1.5 Bln
AKAM
Akamai Technologies Inc
$1 Bln
WYN
Wyndham Worldwide
$1 Bln
DPS
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
$1 Bln
LEA
Lear Corporation
$1 Bln
ADI
Analog Devices
$1 Bln
ADS
Alliance Data Systems 
$1 Bln
ZBH
Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.
$1.0 Bln
BBY
Best Buy Co Inc.
$1 Bln