No, the biggest beneficiary of stock buybacks are pension funds and mutual funds

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The idea of a stock buyback is to return money to shareholders, if in the case of "shareholders" being pension funds and mutual funds then yes they are the biggest beneficiary, in the case where "shareholders" are private investors then no they aren't.

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