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The table below ranks the 284 companies in the S&P 500 that bought back at least 4 percent of their shares from September 30, 2012, through September 30, 2014. The companies are ranked according to their return on investment from these repurchases. As calculated by Fortuna Advisors, a New York City-based consultancy that compiled the data for Institutional Investor, buyback ROI measures the overall rate of return of buybacks, based on the internal rate of return of the cash flows associated with them. Buyback strategy tracks the performance of the underlying stock in terms of annualized total shareholder return. Once Fortuna determines buyback ROI and buyback strategy, buyback effectiveness can then be calculated as simply the difference between the two, determined as compounded return.
How the S&P 500 Stack Up as Stock Repurchasers 150 | 51100 | 101150 | 151200 | 201250 | 251284 | ||||||||
Company | Industry | Market Capitalization | $ Total Buyback | $ Total Buyback / Market Cap | Buyback Strategy | Buyback Effectiveness | Buyback ROI | |
Average | $46,507 | $3,389 | 8.8% | 25.9% | -2.3% | 22.5% | ||
Median | $21,933 | $1,624 | 7.4% | 25.3% | -2.5% | 21.8% | ||
101 | Valero Energy Corp. | Energy | 24,429 | 1,631 | 6.7 | 41.5 | -10.4 | 26.8 |
102 | Starbucks Corp. | Consumer Services | 56,686 | 1,347 | 2.4 | 26.7 | 0.1 | 26.8 |
103 | Assurant | Insurance | 4,590 | 551 | 12.0 | 38.3 | -8.4 | 26.7 |
104 | CR Bard | Healthcare Equipment and Services | 10,651 | 1,364 | 12.8 | 21.5 | 4.0 | 26.3 |
105 | 3M Co. | Capital Goods | 91,804 | 10,299 | 11.2 | 28.4 | -1.7 | 26.3 |
106 | Apache Corp. | Energy | 35,903 | 2,827 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 17.2 | 26.3 |
107 | Caterpillar | Capital Goods | 62,176 | 6,238 | 10.0 | 13.7 | 11.0 | 26.2 |
108 | L-3 Communications | Capital Goods | 10,255 | 1,581 | 15.4 | 30.2 | -3.2 | 26.1 |
109 | Morgan Stanley | Diversified Financials | 67,873 | 1,868 | 2.8 | 50.5 | -16.3 | 26.0 |
110 | Comcast Corp. | Media | 139,068 | 5,000 | 3.6 | 29.9 | -3.1 | 25.8 |
111 | Ingersoll-Rand | Capital Goods | 15,077 | 2,851 | 18.9 | 33.5 | -5.8 | 25.8 |
112 | Altria Group | Food, Beverage and Tobacco | 91,120 | 1,258 | 1.4 | 16.8 | 7.7 | 25.8 |
113 | Huntington Bancshares | Banks | 7,949 | 508 | 6.4 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 24.9 |
114 | General Growth Properties | Real Estate | 20,814 | 1,123 | 5.4 | 15.1 | 8.4 | 24.8 |
115 | Textron | Capital Goods | 10,048 | 574 | 5.7 | 20.2 | 3.8 | 24.8 |
116 | Marathon Oil Corp. | Energy | 25,354 | 1,500 | 5.9 | 22.8 | 1.3 | 24.4 |
117 | KeyCorp. | Banks | 11,657 | 699 | 6.0 | 31.2 | -5.3 | 24.2 |
118 | Computer Sciences Corp. | Software and Services | 8,871 | 1,363 | 15.4 | 47.5 | -15.9 | 24.1 |
119 | Zimmer | Healthcare Equipment and Services | 16,985 | 1,259 | 7.4 | 28.0 | -3.2 | 23.9 |
120 | Edwards Lifesciences Corp. | Healthcare Equipment and Services | 10,831 | 985 | 9.1 | -3.8 | 28.7 | 23.9 |
121 | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. | Materials | 65,678 | 3,000 | 4.6 | 19.1 | 4.0 | 23.9 |
122 | Agilent Technologies | Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences | 19,004 | 1,100 | 5.8 | 23.5 | 0.3 | 23.8 |
123 | Medtronic | Healthcare Equipment and Services | 60,681 | 4,336 | 7.1 | 28.3 | -3.5 | 23.8 |
124 | Merck & Co. | Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences | 171,001 | 13,751 | 15.8 | 30.0 | -4.9 | 23.6 |
125 | The Allstate Corp. | Insurance | 26,598 | 4,207 | 15.8 | 30.0 | -4.9 | 23.6 |
126 | PPG Industries | Materials | 27,118 | 1,450 | 5.3 | 38.1 | -10.5 | 23.5 |
127 | Capital One Financial Corp. | Diversified Financials | 45,815 | 2,576 | 5.6 | 22.2 | 1.0 | 23.4 |
128 | American Express Co. | Diversified Financials | 91,616 | 8,187 | 8.9 | 26.6 | -2.5 | 23.4 |
129 | BlackRock | Diversified Financials | 55,277 | 2,506 | 4.5 | 39.1 | -11.3 | 23.4 |
130 | Coca-Cola Enterprises | Food, Beverage and Tobacco | 10,892 | 1,986 | 18.2 | 29.0 | -4.4 | 23.3 |
131 | Torchmark Corp. | Insurance | 6,839 | 928 | 13.6 | 27.1 | -3.0 | 23.2 |
132 | Safeway | Food and Staples Retailing | 7,903 | 664 | 8.4 | 59.2 | -22.7 | 23.1 |
133 | CareFusion Corp. | Healthcare Equipment and Services | 9,204 | 1,080 | 11.7 | 31.0 | -6.2 | 23.0 |
134 | Dun & Bradstreet Corp. | Commercial and Professional Services | 4,272 | 913 | 21.4 | 23.7 | -0.6 | 22.9 |
135 | Newell Rubbermaid | Consumer Durables and Apparel | 9,421 | 789 | 8.4 | 38.6 | -11.4 | 22.8 |
136 | Tesoro Corp. | Energy | 7,820 | 791 | 10.1 | 35.5 | -9.6 | 22.5 |
137 | Northern Trust Corp. | Diversified Financials | 16,027 | 687 | 4.3 | 22.8 | -0.3 | 22.4 |
138 | GameStop Corp. | Retailing | 4,642 | 597 | 12.9 | 56.1 | -21.6 | 22.3 |
139 | Republic Services | Commercial and Professional Services | 13,879 | 609 | 4.4 | 21.2 | 0.9 | 22.3 |
140 | Rockwell Automation | Capital Goods | 15,149 | 888 | 5.9 | 33.4 | -8.6 | 22.0 |
141 | Honeywell International | Capital Goods | 72,870 | 2,079 | 2.9 | 30.2 | -6.4 | 21.9 |
142 | Illinois Tool Works | Capital Goods | 33,474 | 4,781 | 14.3 | 26.2 | -3.5 | 21.9 |
143 | CenturyLink | Telecommunication Services | 23,314 | 2,161 | 9.3 | 3.9 | 17.3 | 21.8 |
144 | The Sherwin-Williams Co. | Materials | 21,415 | 1,988 | 9.3 | 25.2 | -2.8 | 21.7 |
145 | AutoZone | Retailing | 16,464 | 2,487 | 15.1 | 19.7 | 1.4 | 21.3 |
146 | Lowe's Companies | Retailing | 52,238 | 7,410 | 14.2 | 37.9 | -12.0 | 21.3 |
147 | Nike | Consumer Durables and Apparel | 77,452 | 3,942 | 4.3 | 22.4 | 0.1 | 22.5 |
148 | MasterCard | Software and Services | 85,597 | 6,287 | 7.3 | 33.2 | -9.4 | 20.8 |
149 | Prudential Financial | Insurance | 40,452 | 1,488 | 3.7 | 35.3 | -10.9 | 20.7 |
150 | Automatic Data Processing | Software and Services | 40,050 | 1,140 | 2.8 | 22.9 | -1.9 | 20.6 |
Source: Fortuna Advisors Analysis using data from the Capital IQ database. Financial Data from September 2012 to September 2014. Includes the 491 members of the current S&P 500 that were public for the full period. Market Capitalization as of: 09/30/2014. Companies included here if $ Total Buyback / Market Capitalization is greater than 4% or if $ Total Buyback is greater than $1 billion.. |