Loews Corporation is an American conglomerate headquartered in New York City. The company's majority-stake holdings include CNA Financial Corporation, Boardwalk Pipelines, Loews Hotels and Altium Packaging. Loews positions itself as a value investor with a long-term focus. The company has allocated significant capital for share buybacks, spending $1.3 billion on share repurchases in the three years ending December 31, 2012. Between 1971 and 2020, Loews reduced its shares outstanding from 1.3 billion to 291 million. Wikipedia