in the past few years publicly traded companies in the US executed hundreds of billions of dollars worth of BuyBacks November through December is typically the busiest period for them and 2024 is on track to be the biggest year for stock BuyBacks ever but it all comes down to how this affects the value of those shares it does if there are fewer shares in circulation that means each share that’s out there is more valuable BuyBacks theoretically represent a source of demand that would help prices go up for instance if a company’s value is stable if it’s a a $100 company just for the sake of simplification and if there are 100 shares outside then each share would be worth $1 right and if you remove half of it then it will become $2 okay but there must be someone who’s not winning there is always a loser stock BuyBacks have a lot of critics within government and among economists and according to those critics the losers are essentially everybody else everybody who’s not a shareholder in the company or the company itself exactly this is the big take from Bloomberg News stock BuyBacks why companies do them why shareholders like them and why Regulators want to re them in