Today, November 20, the Infosys share repurchase window commenced, and it will end on November 26. The Rs 18,000-crore buyback will be the largest the IT behemoth has ever introduced. The buyback price per share is set at Rs 1,800. This is Infosys’s first share buyback announcement since 2022, when the firm accepted a Rs 9,300 crore buyback plan.
There are two categories for the buyback: reserved (small shareholders) and general. 15% of the equity shares that the business plans to repurchase or their entitlement, whichever is greater, will be set aside for small shareholders.
A person who owns equity shares with a market value of no more than Rs 2 lakh as of the record date is considered a minor shareholder. Infosys has 25,85,684 small stockholders. November 14 was chosen as the date for identifying qualified shareholders and entitlements. 2:11, or two equity shares for every eleven equity shares held, is the buyback ratio from the reserved category. The ratio is 17:706 for the general category.
In relation to the amount of equity shares they possessed on the record date, an eligible shareholder’s entitlement is the number of equity shares they may tender in the buyback.
As of September 30, 2025, the public owned 85.46 percent of the corporation, while promoters and promoter groups held 14.30 percent. Nandan Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys, was one of the individual promoters with 1.08 percent of the firm.
In NR Rohan Murthy and Akshata Murthy, their children, possessed 1.60 and 1.03 percent of the corporation, respectively, while Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murthy owned 0.40 and 0.91 percent, respectively.
