Infosys promoters, together with Nandan Nilekani, Sudha Murty, decide out of Rs 18,000-crore share buyback
Infosys promoters and promoter group, together with Nandan M Nilekani and Sudha Murty, have determined to not take part within the firm’s Rs 18,000 crore share buyback, in accordance with a regulatory submitting on Wednesday.
The promoters collectively maintain 13.05 per cent of the corporate’s fairness as on the buyback announcement date.
“…the Promoter and Promoter Group of the Firm have expressed their intention of not taking part within the Buyback vide their letters dated September 14, 2025, September 16, 2025, September 17, 2025, September 18, 2025 and September 19, 2025.
“Pursuant to the proposed Buyback and relying on the response to the Buyback, the voting rights of the Promoters and Promoter Group within the Firm, which constitutes 13.05 per cent as on the date of the Public Announcement, might change,” Infosys stated.
Infosys promoters embody firm co-founder N R Narayana Murthy‘s spouse Sudha N Murty, daughter Akshata Murty, and son Rohan Murty. It additionally contains firm co-founder Nandan Nilekani, his spouse Rohini Nilekani, and youngsters Nihar and Janhavi Nilekani. Different co-founders and their households are additionally promoters of the corporate.The Infosys board, in a gathering dated September 11, 2025, authorised the corporate’s largest-ever share buyback value Rs 18,000 crore.Infosys will purchase 10 crore totally paid-up fairness shares of a face worth of Rs 5 every, representing as much as 2.41 per cent of the whole paid-up fairness share capital, at Rs 1,800 per share.
The buyback is being undertaken after taking into consideration the strategic and operational money wants within the medium time period and the necessity for returning surplus funds to the members in an environment friendly method according to Infosys’ capital allocation coverage, the submitting stated.
As per the acknowledged Capital Allocation Coverage, “Efficient from monetary yr 2025, the Firm expects to proceed its coverage of returning roughly 85 per cent of the free money move cumulatively over a 5-year interval by means of a mixture of semi-annual dividends and/or share buyback/ particular dividends, topic to relevant legal guidelines and requisite approvals, if any”.
The corporate intends to steadily improve its annual dividend per share (excluding any particular dividends), the submitting stated, including that according to the capital allocation coverage, the buyback is anticipated to boost shareholder worth over the long run by lowering the fairness base.
Infosys had introduced its first share buyback programme in 2017. The corporate at the moment had bought 11.3 crore shares, or as much as 4.92 per cent of the paid-up fairness share capital of the corporate, at Rs 1,150 per fairness share, amounting to round Rs 13,000 crore.
The second buyback of the corporate was value Rs 8,260 crore in 2019, whereas the third was value Rs 9,200 crore. The Bengaluru-headquartered firm had, in 2022, introduced a share buyback of Rs 9,300 crore through an open market route for a most worth of Rs 1,850 per fairness share.
The Infosys scrip settled at Rs 1,472 apiece on the BSE on Tuesday, 0.72 per cent increased than its earlier shut.
