"Intel today announced its board of directors has approved a $20 billion increase in its stock repurchase program authorization. In the third quarter, the company generated approximately $10.7 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.4 billion, and used $4.5 billion to repurchase 92 million shares of stock".
https://www.intc.com/files/doc_financials/2019/Q3/Q3-2019-Earnings-Release.pdf
(Score: 3, Informative) by ben_white on Monday October 28 2019, @12:56AM
Only about 50% of Americans own stocks, and vast majority of stock is held by a much small number of Americans.
(Source https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/sep/18/ro-khanna/what-percentage-americans-own-stocks/) [politifact.com]