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Infosys Buyback 2025: The special thing is that the promoters and promoter group of Infosys will not participate in this buyback. The share buyback price has been fixed at Rs 1,800 per share which is about 22% premium compared to the current market price.
New Delhi. IT sector giant Infosys Limited has announced the ‘record date’ for its much-awaited Rs 18,000 crore mega buyback program. The company said in its regulatory filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the record date has been fixed for November 14, 2025. Only those investors whose names will be registered in the company’s register on this date will be able to avail the benefit of this buyback offer. The Infosys board had approved this buyback in its meeting on September 11, 2025. This will be the biggest buyback in the company’s history so far. Under this scheme, the company will buy 10 crore equity shares with face value of Rs 5, which is about 2.41% of the total equity.
The special thing is that the promoters and promoter group of the company, which includes Nandan M. Nilekani and Sudha Murty and other founding families, will not participate in this buyback. The promoters include company co-founder N. R. Narayan Murthy’s wife Sudha Murthy, daughter Akshata Murthy, son Rohan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, his wife Rohini Nilekani, and children Nihar and Jhanvi Nilekani. Before the announcement of buyback, the promoter group held 13.05% of the total equity of the company.
Buyback will be at 22% premium
The share buyback price has been fixed at Rs 1,800 per share which is about 22% premium compared to the current market price. Although this is the largest buyback in terms of amount, in terms of equity percentage the 2017 buyback of 4.9% was larger. Infosys did its first buyback in 2017 for Rs 13,000 crore, in which 11.3 crore shares (4.92 per cent) were purchased at Rs 1,150 per share. After this, the company did buybacks worth Rs 8,260 crore in 2019, Rs 9,200 crore in 2021, and Rs 9,300 crore in 2022.
Infosys shares fell 16 percent in one year
In Thursday’s trading, Infosys shares closed down 0.08% i.e. at Rs 1,466.70 with a slight decline. This IT stock has been under pressure for some time. Infosys share price has fallen 16 percent in last few years. The special thing is that this stock has performed poorly not only in the sector but also in comparison to the benchmark Nifty and Sensex in the year. In the second quarter of the current financial year, Infosys’ net profit increased by 13% year-on-year to Rs 7,364 crore. Revenue from operations increased by 9% to Rs 44,490 crore.
