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Learn More"In the twelve months ending September 2025, S&P 500 companies spent a record $1.02 trillion repurchasing their own shares—the second time in history that annual buyback expenditure surpassed the trillion-dollar threshold, and a figure that exceeded the prior twelve-month period by more than eleven percent.¹ By early 2026, authorizations for new repurchase programs were on pace to reach $1.2 trillion for the calendar year, a figure that would represent yet another record.² Across the index, 387 companies executed at least some repurchase activity during the third quarter of 2025 alone, and the top twenty repurchasers alone accounted for 49.5 percent of total buyback spending—well above the pre-pandemic historical average of 44.5 percent.¹"
View Insights ArticleBuxton Helmsley employs a concentrated, research-intensive investment process grounded in forensic financial analysis and an institutional understanding of securities regulation. The firm takes meaningful positions in a select number of companies where it has developed high-conviction views on value, and engages constructively with management and boards to realize that value for all shareholders.
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for Fossil Group shareholders within 2 years of securing board representation
Through disclosure changes, SEC enforcement action, or bankruptcies
Bloomberg, based on number of campaigns
As Buxton Helmsley
* The +440% return figure for Fossil Group (NASDAQ: FOSL) assumes a shareholder held their shares continuously from March 24, 2024, for two years forward.
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