As many as five listed companies, including Cairn India and DCM Shriram, have announced plans to buyback shares worth nearly Rs6,000 crore from shareholders this year so far.
Other three firms that have launched their buyback offers are Isgec Heavy Engineering, Gujarat Apollo Industries and Indo Borax & Chemicals.
Together, all the five firms have planned to infuse a capital of Rs5,940.85 crore to repurchase 19 crore shares from their respective shareholders through open market route on stock exchanges, according to the Sebi data.
Cairn India’s whopping Rs5,725-crore buyback offer, which was launched in January, is the major among five programmes this year.
These five firms would have to complete their buyback plans within a period of six months from date of opening their offer and it would also be mandatory for the companies to repurchase at least 50 per cent of the offers, under the new norms issued by Sebi in August, 2013.