SHARE BUY-BACK Definition

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SHARE BUY-BACK is when a company makes an offer to buy back some of its own shares. There are several types of buy-backs. Three common types are: 1. an equal access scheme - when the company offers to buy back the same proportion of each shareholders shares; 2. a selective buy-back - when the company offers to buy back shares from only one or some of its shareholders; or, 3. the company may buy the shares on the exchange where the shares are traded.

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PROFITABILITY is companys ability to generate revenues in excess of the costs incurred in producing those revenues.

MONETARY is anything pertaining to or having to do with money, money creation, money supply, and the government management of money.

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