stock buybacks

2 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 3, 2026 by Adam Foroughi · across every show →

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May 3, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Foroughi: AppLovin's $6B buyback generated $50B to $60B in value
“And so for the following 18 months, we ended up deploying somewhere around six billion dollars of buybacks of our own capital, and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time, that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of 50, s…”
Adam Foroughi May 3, 2026 ▶ 3:10 Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
May 3, 2026 positive
Insight
Foroughi: High cash-flow companies should buy back shares, not hoard cash
“I never believed in saving cash for a rainy day. I feel like I'm a big believer in what we're building. I believe in where we're going. So if I believe in the future, and we're a really high cash-generated business, We should always be buying back our shares.”
Adam Foroughi May 3, 2026 ▶ 4:17 Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
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