Stock buybacks (Patreon)

Beware the companies that buyback their stock - it means they dont know how to invest in their own business or that they want to artifically pump their own stock.

Stock buybacks are essentially an insider ploy to artificially pump up the stock price and give the illusion that the executive team has everything under control. Apple is a prime example of this shortsighted strategy. Far better to deploy capital into H100 GPUs or Bitcoin—those are the logical moves in this AI-driven era. Everything else falls short.