The topic of “Raytheon stock” is currently trending due to recent statements made by former President Trump regarding the company’s stock buybacks and government contracts. In a series of announcements, Trump expressed his intent to potentially cut Raytheon’s government contracts if they continue with stock buybacks. This has raised significant concerns among investors and stakeholders who are closely monitoring the implications of these potential actions on the company’s financial stability and market performance.
With over 20,000 searches, the surge in interest is largely attributed to the significant role that government contracts play in Raytheon’s overall revenue. As a major defense contractor, any threat to its existing contracts could have substantial effects on its future profitability and share price. Trump’s comments indicate a shift in policy that could directly impact how defense companies manage their capital, triggering anxieties among investors.
Additionally, Trump’s broader directive to defense companies to cease stock buybacks and dividend payments adds another layer of urgency to the situation. This directive raises questions among shareholders about the companies’ financial strategies and how they might respond to regulatory pressure, leading to a heightened interest in Raytheon’s stock performance amid these developments. The potential consequences of these actions for shareholders and the overall market are fostering increased scrutiny and speculation, resulting in the elevated search volume.
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Guy also beats down on big defense contractors for buybacks, dividends, and executive compensations Raytheon got singled out Typical stick and carrot thing here
M
He’s setting up pay to play. It’s mob style extortion.
R
Isn’t pay to play the very thing he talked crap about in 2015-16 when he ran against Hillary? It’s like he accuses others of things and then does the very same thing he accused them of doing 😮
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It’s called projection. They can’t stand it in themselves so they project all those bad traits on you, that way they can hate you for it instead of hating themselves. It’s a defining characteristic of a narcissist. Therefore every accusation is a confession.
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It also muddies the waters. They accuse others of what they are going to do. Then they do it and get accused of it. Anyone who doesn’t realize it’s projection, OR wants to PRETEND they don’t get it, looks and says “wow both sides just accuse each other of the same thing. both sides are the same”
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You are more correct than you know!!
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Unfortunately that’s most likely not possible since I lived it. And that’s probably all I should say other than she was very intelligent and sharp as a tack. Obviously that’s not the case here…
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Kind of how he was criticising Obama for debt and deficit spending then he came on and absolutely ballooned both to another level. Or how he was criticising Biden for inflation and then he came on and inflation shot straight up. Or how he was criticising democrats for foreign war and he went ahead and bombed 7 countries in just a couple of months.
M
It’s called “Every accusation is a confession”
C
He’s not a socialist but he’s nationalizing oil and mineral assets from Venezuela, forbidding US defense companies from share buybacks and dividends (literally knocking share prices down and limiting shareholder returns), and he went from “Affordability is a scam” to “I’m talking about housing affordability at the WEF next week” and he goes on to finish with: corporations shouldn’t be allowed to turn housing into a financial asset that fuels speculation and an affordability crisis. I’m changing my opinion: Trump is a ~~Russian~~ *Soviet* agent.
S
Knocking share prices down so his buddies and him can buy low and sell high when the company magically gets the contracts anyways.
C
Drain the swamp to refill it with their own swamp.
B
My god. We gotta tell someone. About to blow this whole thing wide open 🤯
D
This is exactly what it is. Show the gold then charge everything for a shovel. The companies will bribe him and we won’t talk about it again. He just did the same thing with companies buying single family homes. Everything is a grift.
V
…. pay to play has been american politics 101 for decades now… at least since citizens united. What the actual helllll. 😆😆
F
Typical buy the dip thing
I
Feels like the Intel thing when he accused LBT being a Communist spy
F
This happened about 75 years ago in a certain nation
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I think he means about 85 years ago. Nazi Germany had MEFO-bills, the scheme was to raise a lot of money for the military. It will be paid back through conquest, or else it’s just a pyramid scheme. But most people knew it would be paid back by war.
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I just don’t see how this can work in modern times. The modern economy and technology is much more sophisticated. War between developed nations now would be much more destructive and with a lot less clear benefit. For example when Germany took over Europe the factories in the conquered territories immediately switched to producing equipment and war materials for Germany. In the modern day and age I don’t see how this could happen quickly.
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cheap drones can be made, but I don’t think they are thinking rationally. “with a lot less clear benefit”… only overall for humanity, but you can get an ROI locally in spacetime. Mostly Trump will get the local extracted wealth. Like sell the oil for his own money, and fund the military using OPM. for the short term. for the long term, if Trump wins the war and takes over the world using something like golden dome, I don’t think anyone will question him or his drone swarms. He doesn’t have to pay it back if he wins, and if he loses, it won’t matter.
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What happened in 1951? Korean War?
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This is a perfect set up for insiders. First announcement tanked the stock. His cronies buy in. Now they can sell the day later.
M
Classic negotiation tactic, threaten to cut them off right before handing them a massive contract increase. Defense contractors know the money’s coming either way so they’ll play ball for a bit then go right back to buybacks once the heat dies down
T
He can’t actually stop those things tho and even if he could they’d just do it later
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Raytheon will fall in line and keep getting paid anyway. defense contractors always do
S
Combined with the family interest in potential defense contractors it seems very obvious what is about to happen. Get in on UMAC, RCAT, VMC and the current big boys while they dip.
B
No more department of defense, it’s the department of war, so this isn’t defense spending, it’s war spending.
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There is absolutely NO WAY that Trump plans on leaving the White House. He is 100% pulling an Adolf Hitler, and history will blame Americans for being complete morons for allowing this to happen.
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Trump will leave the White House soon. He can barely speak rn. He ll do a Joe Biden in a year max
M
We can hope
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Has been for a long long time.
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Not like this
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Maybe not threatening first world developed nations, yeah. But everything else… Pretty much. The only difference is how they dress it up. It is no longer hidden, it’s more unilateral. Bush and Obama tried couping Venezuela through other means. Bush and Obama also dropped thousands of bombs through their tenure on a number of nations. Trump just flexes his muscles and gets off on being a ‘big strong man’ but as a citizen of elsewhere in the world it looks exactly how it has all my life in the states. The Americans arrive one way or the other, murder, bomb, pillage resources, and then leave once the region has been suitably destabilised.
B
We need military to invade Greenland, Cuba, Nicaragua, Columbia, Mexico, Iran… This is all for national security. Cause of China and Russia and drugs. We’ll take all their natural resources afterwards but that’s to help their people.
S
With what money?
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The eleventy billion were all making from these wonderful tariffs!
D
Pretty sure you meant *trillion. We are on track to make at least a few trillion by lunch tomorrow. Will probably have the debt paid off by supper. Too bad libs don’t understand the bigly beautiful tariffs.
S
Oh you mean the fund for all our alleged $3k stimmy checks?
T
Oh, no, the tariffs are just to funnel money from american citizens into this military fund. He probably knows he’s lying to you guys that other countries are paying for it
A
*Woosh*
V
More tax breaks obviously. Only then can the economy grow great again. /s
A
They’ll just print more, like always.
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He is speed running the us into a position it will not be able to service the payments on their debt and they either default or do something else which undermines the entire world economy
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If history is any indicator the economy will tank, Democrats will end up in power, Repubs will blame Dems for it, Repubs will regain power, rinse, repeat.
A
Drowning the baby in the bathwater. Reaganites talked about it, Trumpers are do-ers.
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Not his
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That’s what all those bribes are for
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The money they took out of healthcare.
B
Venezuela is going to pay for it /s
Additional Sources:
Reuters – Trump threatens cut in Raytheon’s government contracts over stock buybacks
Axios – Trump threatens to nix Raytheon’s defense contracts
Politico – Trump orders defense companies to stop stock buybacks, dividends
