stock buyback

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   a corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock; increases earnings/share so stock price rises (which can discourage a takeover attempt)

   Broaderpurchase

Questions about stock buyback

What does stock buyback mean?

stock buyback means "a corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock; increases earnings/share so stock price rises (which can discourage a takeover attempt)".

Is stock buyback a common word?

stock buyback is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.