The graph below was produced by Capital Market Labs.
Stock repurchases have been at or near all-time highs for a year now and some pundits have questioned if a part of the bull market run has been artificially generated by this phenomenon.
A list of all North American mega-caps and their buyback activity (per dollar of assets) paints a better picture.
Other than Monsanto Company MON, the next top five stocks -- Mastercard Inc MA, Apple Inc. AAPL, Celgene Corporation CELG, 3M Co MMM, The Home Depot, Inc. HD -- have seen (on average) a 170 percent rise in stock price, coinciding with an 1,800 percent rise in stock repurchases relative to assets over the last few years.
Ophir Gottlieb can be found on Twitter @ophirgottlieb.
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