Buy Back of Shares


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(Querist)
05 June 2008 According to Sec 77 A , of Indian Companies Act , the shares that are bought back are extincted (destroyed), then what is the objective of a Buy Back ?

05 June 2008 Shares may be bought back by the company on account of one or more of the following reasons/ objectives

i. To increase promoters holding

ii. Increase earning per share

iii. Rationalise the capital structure by writing off capital not represented by available assets.

iv. Support share value

v. To thwart takeover bid

vi. To pay surplus cash not required by business

Infact the best strategy to maintain the share price in a bear run is to buy back the shares from the open market at a premium over the prevailing market price.

pratik (Querist)
03 July 2009 tanx a lot


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