dilutive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- anti-dilutive adjective
- non-dilutive adjective
Example Sentences
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Companies that buy their own outstanding shares from the open market can reduce the total supply and increase earnings per share — but it can be difficult to tell if management is buying back stock because executives believe shares are undervalued, or because they’re trying to offset the dilutive effects of stock-based compensation.
From MarketWatch
Salesforce now has “a much better understanding of how to do acquisitions that are accretive to the business but not dilutive to investors,” he said.
From MarketWatch
Benioff responded that past acquisitions such as Slack and Tableau have been dilutive to investors.
From MarketWatch
The outlook anticipates that its Lumen acquisition will be modestly dilutive to adjusted earnings in 2026 and 2027, and will start being accretive in 2028.
The world's largest package delivery company has been scaling back deliveries for the online retail giant, which it says are "extraordinarily dilutive" to its profit margins.
From BBC
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