Three major names in the technology, consumer goods and financial sectors have just announced material updates to their buyback plans. All three indicate strong confidence in the continuation of their businesses, presenting potential opportunities for investors. Let’s dive into these three names below.
Salesforce plans to accelerate repurchases by 50% and increase revenue growth
Salesforce today
- 52 week range
- $226.48
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$369.00
- Dividend yield
- 0.65%
- P/E ratio
- 37.32
- Price target
- $325.23
First up is one of the biggest names in software, Salesforce New York Stock Exchange: Customer Relationship Management. This stock has suffered significantly in 2025. However, the company just released encouraging news that has significantly improved its outlook. On Analyst/Investor Day On October 15, Salesforce said it expects its revenue growth to accelerate strongly from historic lows. Salesforce believes it will increase revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 10% from fiscal year 2026 to fiscal year 2030.
In its current fiscal year 2026, Salesforce expects to grow 8.5% to 9%, roughly equivalent to its lowest growth rate in at least a decade. Thus, the company expects growth to accelerate significantly from FY2027 to FY30, which is a strong positive development for this stock’s outlook.
Additionally, Salesforce noted a rapid acceleration in its buyback program. It plans to spend $7 billion on buybacks over the next two quarters, implying quarterly buyback spending of $3.5 billion. This represents a roughly 50% increase from its average buyback spending of about $2 billion over the past three years.
Although this is not a new buyback program, the strong increase in the pace of buyback spending underscores management’s confidence in the company’s future.
Albertsons is packing more coal into its buyback train
Albertsons Companies Today
Albertsons Companies
- 52 week range
- $16.70
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$23.20
- Dividend yield
- 3.07%
- P/E ratio
- 11.58
- Price target
- $23.50
Next up is a major player in the US grocery industry, Albertsons Companies New York Stock Exchange: ACI. Shares took a beating through most of the second half of 2025. However, the company turned its fortunes around dramatically on October 14 when it announced its fiscal second-quarter 2026 earnings. Sales grew only about 2%, which was in line with expectations.
Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) fell about 14% to 44 cents. However, this significantly exceeded the consensus forecast of 40 cents. The company also raised its full-year forecasts on both numbers.
Despite these seemingly lackluster results, Albertsons was up nearly 14% post-release. The company is in an “investment year,” sacrificing short-term growth and margins to increase its long-term competitiveness. Thus, stocks achieved significant gains by beating low expectations.
Also helping the stock’s rise was Albertsons’ announced $750 million accelerated share repurchase (ASR) program. Combined with previous buybacks, Albertsons will use this to reduce the number of its outstanding shares by 12% compared to the start of its 2026 fiscal year.
Additionally, the company still has $1.3 billion of buyback capacity, equivalent to about another 12% of its market capitalization. Albertsons’ outlook is clearly improving, and management is signaling high confidence with its buyback plans.
SYF signals confidence amid regional bank concerns
Financial synchronization today
Financial synchronization
- 52 week range
- $40.54
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$77.41
- Dividend yield
- 1.64%
- P/E ratio
- 7.97
- Price target
- $81.38
Finally, financial synchronization New York Stock Exchange: CF It recently reported earnings and announced a major buyback program. In its third-quarter 2025 results, released on October 15, the company reported revenue that was essentially flat and slightly beat estimates. However, the company’s EPS rose 47% to $2.84, beating consensus estimates by 64 cents. The company also announced the addition of $1 billion to its stock buyback program. The company’s total repurchase capacity now stands at $2.1 billion. This equates to a very large 8.1% of its market capitalization.
Synchrony was particularly prominent in the buyback announcement. In the trading week that began on October 13, more than 50 financial services companies reported earnings. Synchrony appears to have been one of the few, if not the only, companies to announce a new or gradual buyback program.
This came as the credit quality of Synchrony’s loans improved significantly during the quarter, with lower delinquency rates and net charge-offs. This is a good sign for Synchrony’s future, especially given the concerns about it Regional bank lending. The fact that the company is increasing its repurchase capacity while some other lenders are struggling only adds to this positive signal.
ACI could be a winning stock if all goes well
Overall, CRM, ACI and SYF made major announcements that gave investors a lot of thumbs up. Albertsons may be the most interesting name in the group at the moment. The company is ready to return capital to shareholders by hand over fist.
It also trades at a very low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 9x, one of the lowest multiples in the grocery industry. If the company’s investments pay off, the stock could have a strong performance going forward.
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