{"id":1003751,"date":"2026-04-18T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003751"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:40:26","slug":"wipro-board-approves-rs-15000-crore-buyback-q1-fy27-guidance-cut-to-negative-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/wipro-board-approves-rs-15000-crore-buyback-q1-fy27-guidance-cut-to-negative-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Wipro board approves Rs 15,000 crore buyback; Q1 FY27 guidance cut to negative 2-0%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Wipro on Thursday said its board has approved its largest-ever share buyback worth Rs 15,000 crore through a tender offer, which it expects to complete in the first quarter of 2027. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s board approved a buyback proposal worth Rs 15,000 crore at a price of Rs 250 per share, subject to shareholder approval. The company said it plans to buy back up to 60 crore equity shares, representing 5.7% of its total paid-up equity share capital. The offer price is at a 19% premium to the closing price of Wipro shares on April 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Wipro on Thursday said its board has approved its largest-ever share buyback worth Rs 15,000 crore through a tender offer, which it expects to complete in the first quarter of 2027. The company\u2019s board approved a buyback proposal worth Rs 15,000 crore at a price of Rs 250 per share, subject to shareholder approval. The company said it plans to buy back up to 60 crore equity shares, representing 5.7% of its total paid-up equity share capital. The offer price is at a 19% premium to the closing price of Wipro shares on April 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}