Thursday, September 29, 2011

Autozone approves stock buyback...

The Board of Directors at AutoZone (AZO) approves an additional $750M stock buyback, on top of its existing share repurchasement plan.

This is strange.  Usually companies buyback shares when a stock has fallen and the company thinks the shares are a bargain.  The weekly chart is below...note the stock near all-time highs...so why would they be buying back shares here???  Hmmm...

2 Possible Reasons:

1. They think the stock is going higher; or
2. They want to reduce the number of shares outstanding, which would help prop up their earnings per share.  Maybe they know their earnings are NOT going to be a good as expected???

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