Dividend payments are probably the most common way, but a company can also choose to engage ... happens when a company uses some of its cash to buy shares of its own stock on the open market ...

This can have the effect of driving up share value over time, though that is not an inevitable result. A company might buy back its shares to boost the value of the stock and to improve its ...

These share purchases form part of the on- and off-market limbs of the Company's existing share buy-back programme previously ... buyback contract approved by its shareholders and the pre-set ...

The value of that initial share would have grown to over $325 -- two shares of ConocoPhillips valued at $105 plus one share ...

by issuing its own shares on a stock exchange for the first time. In this way, any investor can buy shares and the company can raise capital to grow," writes Kiplinger contributor Tom Taulli in ...