{"id":1003769,"date":"2026-04-18T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003769"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:59:51","slug":"wipro-announces-rs-15000-crore-share-buyback-first-in-nearly-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/wipro-announces-rs-15000-crore-share-buyback-first-in-nearly-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Wipro announces Rs 15,000-crore share buyback, first in nearly three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The board of directors of IT services major Wipro on Thursday approved a \u20b915,000-crore share buyback programme, proposing to repurchase 5.7 per cent of its equity, or up to 60 crore shares, from shareholders at \u20b9250 per share. <\/p>\n<p>The buyback price implies a premium of 19 per cent over Thursday\u2019s closing price of \u20b9210.15 per share on the NSE. This marks the Bangalore-based company\u2019s first buyback announcement in nearly three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board of directors of IT services major Wipro on Thursday approved a \u20b915,000-crore share buyback programme, proposing to repurchase 5.7 per cent of its equity, or up to 60 crore shares, from shareholders at \u20b9250 per share. The buyback price implies a premium of 19 per cent over Thursday\u2019s closing price of \u20b9210.15 per share on the NSE. This marks the Bangalore-based company\u2019s first buyback announcement in nearly three years.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003769","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=1003769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}