PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI") announced today that preliminary Q2 2019 S&P 500® stock buybacks, or share repurchases, were $164.5 billion. This was the second consecutive quarterly decline after four consecutive quarters of record buybacks. Q2 2019 buybacks were 20.1% lower than Q1 2019's $205.6 billion, 13.7% lower year-over-year from Q2 2018's $190.6 billion, and 26.2% lower than the Q4 2018 record expenditure of $223.0 billion.
Key Takeaways:
"In what may have been a reaction to their tax-inspired record-setting buying spree of 2018, companies significantly pulled back on their Q2 2019 buybacks, said Howard Silverblatt, Senior Index Analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. "While the decline is significant compared to 2018, it remains higher than the pre-2018 levels. Estimates vary, but a base amount of $170 billion a quarter has been emerging as the consensus level of buybacks going forward."
Silverblatt also found that buybacks continue to be top heavy, with the top 20 issues accounting for 51.4% of the buybacks, up a tick from the Q1 2019 51.2%, as the 10-year average is 44.1%.
Q2 2019 GICS® Sector Analysis:
Information Technology buybacks continued to dominate, even as they decreased 20.3% to $54.2 billion compared to $68.0 billion for Q1 2019. Twelve-month expenditures were up 33.8% to $265.8 billion from $198.7 billion spent for the same period in 2018. The sector represents 33.0% of the index's buybacks for the quarter, flat from last quarter.
Materials buyback declined 49.3% to $2.4 billion compared to $4.8 billion for Q1 2018. Utilities declined 40.4%, to 0.9 billion from 1.5 billion in Q1 2019.
Health Care buybacks continued to be volatile, as they decreased 44.5% to $17.1 billion, down from $30.7 billion for Q1 2019, as the 12-months ending in Q2 2019, buybacks were $93.6 billion, up 6.1% from the $88.2 billion spent in the corresponding 2018 period.
Issues:
The five issues with the highest total buybacks for Q2 2019 are:
For more information about S&P Dow Jones Indices, please visit www.spdji.com.
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PERIOD | MARKET | OPERATING | AS REPORTED | | | | | DIVIDEND & |
| VALUE | EARNINGS | EARNINGS | DIVIDENDS | BUYBACKS | DIVIDEND | BUYBACK | BUYBACK |
| $ BILLIONS | $ BILLIONS | $ BILLIONS | $ BILLIONS | $ BILLIONS | YIELD | YIELD | YIELD |
12 Mo Jun,'19 Prelim. | $24,423.49 | $1,295.01 | $1,132.67 | $471.54 | $797.03 | 1.93% | 3.26% | 5.19% |
12 Mo Jun,'18 | $23,036.32 | $1,196.08 | $1,043.63 | $435.69 | $645.81 | 1.89% | 2.80% | 4.69% |
2018 | $21,026.90 | $1,281.66 | $1,119.43 | $456.31 | $806.41 | 2.17% | 3.84% | 6.01% |
2017 | $22,821.24 | $1,066.00 | $940.86 | $419.77 | $519.40 | 1.84% | 2.28% | 4.12% |
2016 | $19,267.93 | $919.85 | $818.55 | $397.21 | $536.38 | 2.06% | 2.78% | 4.85% |
| | | | | | | | |
6/28/2019 Prelim | $24,423 | $335.58 | $291.25 | $118.68 | $164.48 | 1.93% | 3.26% | 5.19% |
3/29/2019 | $23,619 | $316.48 | $291.23 | $117.33 | $205.81 | 1.97% | 3.49% Werbung Mehr Nachrichten zur Cisco Systems Inc. Aktie kostenlos abonnieren
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