Infosys share price: Shares of information technology services major Infosys rose over 2% on Friday, September 12, after the company’s board of directors approved its largest ever share buyback programme of ₹18,000 crore.
This share buyback programme of Infosys matches the largest ever plan of IT major TCS. In 2022, Tata Consultancy Services had bought back 4 crore shares worth ₹18,000 crore at ₹4,500 per share.
Infosys Share Price
At 12:36 pm, Infosys shares were trading 1.23% higher at ₹1,528.30 per share on the National Stock Exchange. It has a market capitalization of ₹6,34,583.41 crore.
Intraday, it rose 2.19% to ₹1,542.9.
In the past one week, the stock has gained 4%, while it had gained 7.3% in the same period of the month. In the three-month period, it declined 2.95%, while year-to-date it has declined 18.38%.
Infosys buyback programme: Know how many shares it plans to buyback
In a filing to the exchange on September 11, Infosys said it will buy back 10 crore fully paid-up shares of ₹5 face value at a price of ₹1,800 per share, representing 2.41% of the total paid-up equity share capital. This is 19.22% higher than Thursday’s closing price of ₹1,509.7 per share on the NSE.
“The board of directors of the company at its meeting held on September 11, 2025 considered and approved the proposal for repurchase of equity shares aggregating to Rs 18,000 crore at a price of ₹1,800 per share,” the company said in a regulatory filing. In the first quarter of financial year 2025-26 (Q1 FY26), the company had reported free cash flow of around ₹7,805 crore (US$ 884 million).
