Major pharma firms like Eli Lilly, GSK, Merck, Regeneron and Sanofi announce $35B+ in share buybacks since December, ...

She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. A share repurchase is a public company's reduction in its number of shares outstanding, accomplished by buying a portion of its shares on the open ...

but a company can also choose to engage in a share-buyback or share-repurchase program. Both terms have the same meaning: A share repurchase (or stock buyback) happens when a company uses some of ...