{"id":1004942,"date":"2026-04-25T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004942"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:21:17","slug":"netflix-approves-25-billion-buyback-signals-return-to-shareholder-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/netflix-approves-25-billion-buyback-signals-return-to-shareholder-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix approves $25 billion buyback, signals return to shareholder payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix on Thursday (April 23) said that it approved a fresh $25 billion share buyback program. This development signals a renewed focus on returning capital to shareholders after stepping away from a potential $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery assets. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement boosted investor sentiment, with Netflix shares rising about 1.5% in premarket trading. It has also signalled confidence in the company\u2019s long-term cash flow generation, even as it continues to invest heavily in content and platform expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix on Thursday (April 23) said that it approved a fresh $25 billion share buyback program. This development signals a renewed focus on returning capital to shareholders after stepping away from a potential $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery assets. The announcement boosted investor sentiment, with Netflix shares rising about 1.5% in premarket trading. It has also signalled confidence in the company\u2019s long-term cash flow generation, even as it continues to invest heavily in content and platform expansion.<\/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":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004942","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=1004942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004965,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004942\/revisions\/1004965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}