Markets
The Buyback Returns, With Better Manners
Share repurchases are running at a substantial pace again, and the companies doing them have learned to explain themselves. Disclosure has improved faster than the underlying discipline.
Sunday, September 6th, 2026
Share repurchases are running at a substantial pace again, and the companies doing them have learned to explain themselves. Disclosure has improved faster than the underlying discipline.
After a decade in which payouts read as an admission of exhausted ambition, companies and investors have rediscovered the discipline of cash returned.