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Why Executive Compensation Matters | Covid Winners and Losers, and How the Market Thinks

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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Stock Compensation - The Elephant in the Room

This is a very, very levered company. The debt has gone up over the last three or four years. It's not like this was a dleverging story where they were getting out in front of it. So even though they've been generating a billion plus of free every year, that the debt is quite extreme. And what did they do along the way? Instead of paying down debt, the stock repurchases over the last four years, 500 million dollars.

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