• guy-anderson@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    GM is announcing a stock buyback

    They are not announcing a stock buyback. They are announcing changes to their existing buyback plan. Including the increased dividend, their new guidance is estimating $1 billion dollars less going to shareholders. So it’s actually a pretty big cut.

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      11 months ago

      Where in the article does it say they are revising their buyback plan? Because this article (and others) clearly state that the buyback announcement is new

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        11 months ago

        GM’s new guidance reduced expected net income attributable to stockholders for 2023 to a range of $9.1 billion to $9.7 billion, compared to the previous outlook of $9.3 billion to $10.7 billion.

        So their previous guidance (how much they predicted for a year) was replaced with new guidance.

        The article actually never says the $10 billion is new. It just heavily implies it.

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      11 months ago

      so a company complaining to high heaven about their workers wanting too much when they just want to feed their families why are they doing a stock buyback or dividend at all. They should be using that money to pay their workers a livable wage and right the ship and that is actually in the best interest of the stockholders.

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        11 months ago

        They probably have a lot of loans underwritten by stock, so they need their stock price to stay at certain numbers or else their credit rating gets worse and they have to pay more to service their debt.

        Unless you are a car company that takes pre-orders, people only pay for cars after they are made. So you either need to hoard cash or take on debt in order to maintain consistent cash flow.

        Issuing and buying back shares is a pretty common way to handle cash flow and is really a separate issue to living wages and employee compensation.

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        11 months ago

        You’re thinking like a regular person. Think like a capitalist that makes their money off exploitation and you’ll get there.