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5 Companies Buying Back Their Own Stock Hand Over Fist As the Stock Market Sells Off

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5 Companies Buying Back Their Own Stock Hand Over Fist As the Stock Market Sells Off

When stock prices fall, every buyback dollar goes further. These five companies are taking advantage.

Directly affected

  • No company is named in this report.

Indirectly affected

  • DIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF-0.8% 18d

    SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF: it is a broad US stock-market fund. Linked by “stock market” (the broad US market) in this story.

  • QQQ Invesco QQQ-9.8% 30d

    Invesco QQQ: it is a broad US stock-market fund. Linked by “stock market” (the broad US market) in this story.

  • IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF-2.8% 30d

    iShares Russell 2000 ETF: it is a broad US stock-market fund. Linked by “stock market” (the broad US market) in this story.

  • RSP Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF

    Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF: it is a broad US stock-market fund. Linked by “stock market” (the broad US market) in this story.

  • VTI Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

    Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF: it is a broad US stock-market fund. Linked by “stock market” (the broad US market) in this story.

Price reaction, T-5 to T+3

TickerT-5T-3T-1T0T+1T+2T+3
DIA+0.47%+0.48%base-0.25%after closeafter closeafter close
QQQ+6.56%+5.75%base+1.43%after closeafter closeafter close
IWM+3.08%+3.25%base+0.95%after closeafter closeafter close
RSP+0.68%+1.10%base-0.39%after closeafter closeafter close
VTI+3.09%+2.95%base+0.40%after closeafter closeafter close

Closing-price change versus T-1, the last close before the story. T0 to T+3 fill in after each market close. Prices: Alpaca IEX.

5 Companies Buying Back Their Own Stock Hand Over Fist As the Stock Market Sells Off Yahoo Finance

Source: Yahoo Finance

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CompanyWhenMoveStatus
DIAthat day-0.25%final price
DIAthree days earlier+0.48%final price
DIAfive days earlier+0.47%final price
IWMthat day+0.95%final price
IWMthree days earlier+3.25%final price
IWMfive days earlier+3.08%final price
QQQthat day+1.43%final price
QQQthree days earlier+5.75%final price
QQQfive days earlier+6.56%final price
RSPthat day-0.39%final price
RSPthree days earlier+1.10%final price
RSPfive days earlier+0.68%final price
VTIthat day+0.40%final price
VTIthree days earlier+2.95%final price
VTIfive days earlier+3.09%final price

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