Thursday, February 14, 2008

I Want My Buyback Back ..."Daimler Edition"

Look at the chart what $ 3.5 billion have done for the stock.... They bought at an average price close to € 70...... This adds up to a loss of € 750.000.0000 in just 6 month..... Needless to say that they bought close to historic highs for the stock and the "return to sharholders" is a whopping negative 21 percent....... With the next € 4 billion now ready to "maximize share holder value" the averaging down can begin.......

Seht Euch den Chart an was satte 3,5 Mrd € zur Performance beigetragen haben....... Daimler hat zum Durchschnittskurs von 70 € zugekauft...... Das ganze sumiert sich binnen 6 Monaten mal eben zu einer Wertvernichtung von 750.0000.000 €...... Überflüssig zu erwähnen das ein Großteil der Käufe nahe der historischen Höchststände der Aktie praktiziert worden ist und die anvisierte Optimierung zugunsten der Aktionäre hat mit minus 21 Prozent nicht ganz die Erwartungen erfüllt....Mit den nächsten 4 Mrd € kann das Verbilligen jetzt ja losgehen........

Share buyback program Daimler
In order to optimize its capital structure, the Group initiated a share buyback program in August 2007. In this context, it was announced that up to €7.5 billion would be applied to buy back nearly 10% of the company’s own shares. By the middle of December 2007, 50 million shares had been acquired for €3.5 billion. These shares were canceled by the end of the year. The share buyback program will be continued today.


At least they hadn´t to issue new debt to finance this "smart" move.....

Immerhin muß Daimler im Gegensatz zu anderen diese Transaktion nicht mit neuen Schulden finanzieren....

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

My opinion - Once Managment announces a buy back it tells me they no longer have the ability or business savy to grow the business. I always sell into the high.

10:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

UBS flogging US assets....neat!

8:54 PM  
Blogger jmf said...

Moin Barley,

i agree. Every time i hear that big buybacks are in place a red flag is showing up.

Especially when like in the US the buyback is debtfueled....

10:25 PM  

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