Do you realize how extensively companies have to document their buybacks? Who is deceived?
There is zero fraud implied or even suggested by stock buybacks. They are heavily-publicized-in-advance returns of capital to shareholders. That's it. The sales are often offset by the creation of new stock via RSUs, and in that case just reduce the dilution intrinsic to RSUs.
Shareholders want executives to be incentive-aligned to reduce agency problems. Stock based compensation furthers that goal. If a manager doesn't think they have a better use of spare capital than returning it to shareholders, returning the capital is exactly what shareholders want. There's nothing nefarious here.
You assume that simply because information exists that people will not only understand it, do so correctly, and act on it rationally and not emotionally.
Again, it’s like the Epstein narrative; the right and good thing is to release the information, but the whole system, both sides and most in between have a vested interest of one kind or another to keep it under wraps. We know there as organized human trafficking, sexual slavery, abuse, rape, and various types of racial master race level eugenics associated with out of control “intelligence” agencies, including for foreign governments against the American government …. It everyone is just covering it up because everyone is implicated or is mentally compromised and the “peasants” unlikely have the organized power to change that.
That is also all documented, in fact it was documented for how many years? 10? 15? 20?
Ever hear of a guy called Madoff? He sure made off with money of sophisticated and smart people for several decades.
Don’t lie to yourself about the confidence in the system.
There is zero fraud implied or even suggested by stock buybacks. They are heavily-publicized-in-advance returns of capital to shareholders. That's it. The sales are often offset by the creation of new stock via RSUs, and in that case just reduce the dilution intrinsic to RSUs.
Shareholders want executives to be incentive-aligned to reduce agency problems. Stock based compensation furthers that goal. If a manager doesn't think they have a better use of spare capital than returning it to shareholders, returning the capital is exactly what shareholders want. There's nothing nefarious here.