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Partially, along with beating expected EPS by $0.09 and expected revenue by 400MM.

EPS beat estimates by 4%, $2.46 vs $2.36.

I wonder if stock buybacks is part of it.

Dividend announcement doesn't make stocks go up. They actually go down by the amount of dividend.

After the dividend record date, before it they do go up by a similar amount to the dividend of it wasn’t already priced in at all.