FILE PHOTO: An employees walks past a signage board in the Infosys campus at the Electronics City IT district in Bangalore, February 28, 2012. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash/File Photo
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Infosys Ltd., Bengaluru-based tech services and digital transformation firm, has announced its biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 crore at a 19% premium, as per a regulatory filing it made in the late evening on Thursday.
The company would buyback about 10 crore shares, representing 2.41% of equity at ₹1,800 per share, at a 19% premium. The buyback, through the tender offer, is its biggest ever since the company’s listing. Infosys made its listing on Indian bourses way back in 1993 and on NASDAQ in 1999.
According to the filing, the Board of Directors of the Company at their meeting held on September 11, 2025, has considered and approved a proposal to buyback equity shares for an amount of ₹18,000 crore at a price of ₹ 1,800 per Equity Share. This would be payable in cash and comprise purchase of 10 crore fully paid-up equity shares of the company of face value of ₹5 each , representing up to 2.41% of the total number of shares in the existing total paid-up equity share capital of the cCompany.
The buyback size does not exceed 25% of the aggregate of the paid-up capital and free reserves, based on the latest audited interim condensed standalone and consolidated financial statements of the company as on June 30, 2025, as per the filing.
The Board has constituted a buyback comprising the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer and the Company Secretary of the Company.
This is Infosys’ 5th buyback. Earlier, it had announced buybacks worth ₹13,000 crore in 2017, ₹ 8,260 crore in 2019, ₹9,200 crore in 2021 and ₹9,300 crore in 2023.
Published – September 12, 2025 12:37 am IST
