{"id":1026888,"date":"2026-08-07T07:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026888"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:59:12","slug":"deutsche-telekom-expands-2026-share-buyback-by-e3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/deutsche-telekom-expands-2026-share-buyback-by-e3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Telekom expands 2026 share buyback by \u20ac3 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom expanded its 2026 share buyback programme by \u20ac3 \u200cbillion ($3.5 billion) \u2060to \u2060up to \u20ac5 billion after it reported second-quarter core earnings above market expectations on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The additional repurchases will help address the low valuation of \u200bthe group&#8217;s shares \u2060relative to \u200ctheir historical levels and \u200btake \u200badvantage of recent stock-price \u2060volatility, the German telecoms operator said. The \u200bBonn-based group reported adjusted earnings \u200bbefore interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation after leases, or EBITDAaL, of \u20ac11.8 billion for the second quarter, up from \u20ac11.0 \u200cbillion a year ago and above analyst consensus of \u20ac11.7 \u200bbillion compiled by \u200bthe \u2060company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom expanded its 2026 share buyback programme by \u20ac3 \u200cbillion ($3.5 billion) \u2060to \u2060up to \u20ac5 billion after it reported second-quarter core earnings above market expectations on Thursday. The additional repurchases will help address the low valuation of \u200bthe group&#8217;s shares \u2060relative to \u200ctheir historical levels and \u200btake \u200badvantage of recent stock-price \u2060volatility, the German telecoms operator said. The \u200bBonn-based group reported adjusted earnings \u200bbefore interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation after leases, or EBITDAaL, of \u20ac11.8 billion for the second quarter, up from \u20ac11.0 \u200cbillion a year ago and above analyst consensus of \u20ac11.7 \u200bbillion compiled by \u200bthe \u2060company.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026888","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=1026888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026900,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026888\/revisions\/1026900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}