Why Has the Popularity of Share Repurchases Been Growing Faster

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Essay

Why has the popularity of share repurchases been growing faster than the cash dividends as a method for companies to distribute cash to their shareholders.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A measure that indicates the amount of variation or dispersion from the average in a set of data.

Geometric Mean

The nth root of the product of n numbers, used especially for sets of positive numbers.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Variance

A measure of variability that describes the spread of a data set or distribution, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.