> QLTI – There are many companies with terrific technologies that can't bring them to market because they don't have the cash, and this company is wasting the cash on supporting the stock.<
The PR said they investigated other uses for the money; maybe no one made them a decent proposal.
I don’t object to “financial engineering” when a stock is genuinely undervalued. The problem is that many companies are a poor judge of their own stock’s valuation and end up overpaying for shares in their buyback programs.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”