RE:RE:RE:RE:NCIB mathDividends are usually better for long term holders and buyback for short and medium term holders. Often the companies that pay dividends don't do too great in terms of SP unless they combine divs with buyback. In Gear case as soon as they stopped buying their own shares their SP became under an attack of wash traders. What they do is they overwhelm the stock with trades that always have this downward pressure and the stock constantly slides. I have seen it many times. Interesting thing is that wash traders are usually very long term. They are interested in bringing the share price down as much as they can so they can collect more and more shares at cheaper prices.At some point the market figures them out and the volume becomes non-existant. I have seen it with my other stocks I invested into. At some point Gear will recover nicely but we may talk years.