Analyzing the Impact of Corporate Stock Buybacks in China and the US Equity Markets

Abstract

This paper contributes to the comparative analysing the impact of corporate stock buybacks in China and the US equity markets. The reason to compare two equity markets with buybacks - in the US equity market, the largest source of the US equity demand has consistently been buybacks. However, in the China equity market, China's A-share market conducted a surging number of buybacks that began in 2018, it believes showed corporations' strong intention of bottom fishing and would support stock value. Based on that, this paper analyses the motivation and status analysis of buybacks in China and the US equity markets. Further, according to the financial assessment of two big corporate buybacks in China and the US equity markets as case studies. Therefore, demand for buybacks in the equity market still large, it suggests confidence in a corporation's performance buybacks is one way for corporations to reward shareholders and rejuvenate bull market.