Reinvested Quotes
The size of the buybacks and the relatively low percentage that is being reinvested in the industry would tend to indicate that oil companies don't have enough new upstream opportunities and projects to spend their money on.
- Neil McMahon

A major wild card that has yet to really surface is legislation that allows U.S. corporations to repatriate foreign earnings at a 5.25 percent tax rate instead of 35 percent. To be eligible the money has to be repatriated in 2005 and reinvested by Dec. 31, 2007. While the money cannot be used for many corporate activities, it can be used for mergers and acquisition.
- John McCamant

[Keeping CEOs from making dumb decisions has won fans among Canada's biggest money managers.] In the majority of cases, you would have been better off as a shareholder if the companies had paid out extra money to you, rather than reinvested it. Most management teams are not good at capital allocation, ... Look at BCE [Inc.]. Instead of buying all those businesses they then had to write off, it would have been better just to pay out the money.
- Brian Gibson

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