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Buybacks take a beating
Published 10/17/2008 at Business news and Fortune 500 - FORTUNE Magazine
Last month, Microsoft announced it was going to spend $40 billion buying back its own stock. Traditionally, that would have meant a payday for its investors. With Microsoft using its own spare cash to reduce the number of outstanding shares, earnings per share should have improved, and the stock price should have ticked upwards.
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