{"id":26365,"date":"2026-04-03T19:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=26365"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:08:56","slug":"what-is-a-share-buyback","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-is-a-share-buyback\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Share Buyback?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A share buyback is when a company repurchases its own shares from existing shareholders at a fixed price and usually at a premium to the current market price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies do this when they believe their stock is undervalued, when they have surplus cash with no immediate reinvestment need, or as a signal of confidence in the company&#8217;s financial health. It also reduces the total shares in circulation, which improves earnings per share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shares bought back are cancelled and they no longer exist. This reduces the total number of shares in circulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A buyback is voluntary. You choose whether to tender your shares or continue holding. If you don&#8217;t participate, your share count stays the same but your ownership percentage increases slightly as the total share count reduces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2867],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26367,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26365\/revisions\/26367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=26365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}