RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Re: GPW Plans to Repurchase Common Shareslakeside03 wrote: Perhaps dilution was the wrong word.....
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Reducing share count, reducing dilution, increasing liquidity and returning cash to shareholders all sound like good ideas to me. Good enough for the CFO to front run the repurchase at least.