I believe being de facto private isn't to their advantage, either, so if it becomes possible to become closely held or fully private, they would
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Why would it be privately held? The equity percentage of each repurchased is spread out among the remaining stockholders.
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Indexes have liquidity requirements for inclusion.
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No different than dividends. A firm has excess cash, so it decide to return it to the shareholders in exchange for more ownership of itself. Would rather see a company do this to keep itself small rather than speculate in unrelated investments it has no business bring in.
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As a practical matter, the issuance of new stock to corporate officers is more than enough to offset the buybacks
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It is possible for a company to take itself private again in an Un-IPO. The rule that forces IPO is triggered by crossing a number of shareholders (200?). If you bought out enough shareholders, the remaining could choose to de-list. Reduces regulatory compliance obligations.
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Ah ok
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