With Oracle's buybacks exceeding free operating cash-flow generation, S&P is concerned the company will be overleveraged.
Even as key corporate financial indicators continue to fall, some hope may be emerging that forecasts of an impending recession will prove inaccurate.
While a quarter of S&P 500 companies base CEO bonuses partly on qualitative factors, research shows that's not a good idea.
The incoming finance chief has an "impossible" problem in funding needed capex on top of a huge share buyback and dividend hike, analyst firm says.
Quarters when CEO equity awards vest coincide with corporate actions that pump up stock prices briefly while damaging the company's long-term value.
Among a number of capital-raising experiments, some companies are seeking investors for specific projects.
“Sluggish activity to begin the second quarter seems to have continued the relatively soft Q1," said ELFA's chief executive.
Origination volume in February was nearly flat, and receivables over 30 days and charge-offs 'inched upward,' says ELFA.
Speculative-grade companies spent an amount equal to four times their discretionary cash flow on dividends and buybacks in 2014, says Moody's.
Finance chiefs are focused on growth, but they're holding back on making the moves that actually drive sustained expansion, according to Ernst & Young.
CFOs are more optimistic than last quarter and plan to do some hiring in the year ahead, according to the latest Duke/&splt;i>CFO&splt;/i> Global Business Outlook Survey.
Companies are starting, in the smallest of ways, to increase their outlays on inventory and plant and equipment.
