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Buyback Outliers: 4Q25 Update

December 8th, 2025

Are buybacks about to become a favorable factor for the markets?  Certainly for the past few years, the market has largely ignored those companies that have deployed significant capital towards buybacks in an attempt to drive shareholder returns. What do we mean by that? Well simply...

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Buyback Outliers: 2Q25 Update

July 1st, 2025

In our first report in which we introduced the Buyback Outliers List in December of last year, we argued that those companies with consistent and sizeable buyback programs typically performed better during market downturns even though the relative outperformance of serial stock...

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Buyback Outliers: March 2025 Update

March 20th, 2025

In our first report in which we introduced the Buyback Outliers List, we argued that those companies with consistent and sizeable buyback programs typically performed better during market downturns even though the relative outperformance of serial stock repurchasers compared to the...

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Introducing the PAA Research Buyback Outliers List

December 19th, 2024

“Analysts tend to be cheer-leaders for corporate re-purchase programs. In my view, these programs only make sense under one condition – the company is buying back shares that are significantly under-valued. Most management teams have demonstrated the total...

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