Infosys announces record date for ₹18,000 crore share buyback — Check key details, eligibility criteria here

India's second-largest IT company, Infosys, on Thursday, 6 November 2025, announced the record date for its ₹18,000 crore share buyback, according to an exchange filing.

The board of directors announced that the company has set Friday, 14 November 2025, as the ‘Record Date’ for its share buyback move, where it will determine the eligible shareholders who will participate in the buyback.

“The company has fixed Friday, 14 November 2025, as the Record Date for the purpose of determining the entitlement and the names of equity shareholders who are eligible to participate in the buyback,” the company informed the stock exchanges through its official filing.

Mint reported earlier that Infosys has announced a ₹18,000 crore buyback proposal, where the IT major will repurchase its own shares from the existing shareholders of the company. The board of directors approved the share buyback move on 11 September 2025, marking the IT firm's first buyback since 2022.

The buyback deal outlines that Infosys will repurchase up to 10 crore equity shares, which represents 2.41% of the total share capital of the IT major. The company will buy back the shares at ₹1,800 apiece in cash, amounting to ₹18,000 crore in total value.

Every shareholder who owns the company stock will be eligible for the buyback offer, while 15% of the move will be reserved for the small investor segments.

Infosys's buyback offer will be carried out through the tender offer route on both the NSE and BSE indices, and the tender window will remain open for five working days since the announcement.

According to the earlier report, Infosys will fund the buyback entirely from the company's reserves without taking any borrowings for the move.

Infosys' share price closed 0.12% lower at ₹1,466.25 after Thursday's stock market session, compared to ₹1,468 at the previous market close. The company announced the record date for its buyback offer after the market operating hours on 6 November 2025.

Infosys' stock has given market investors more than 31% returns on their investment in the last five years. However, the shares are down 19.59% in the last one-year period.

On a year-to-date (YTD) basis, the company's shares have lost 22.10% in 2025 and are trading 0.64% lower in the last one-month period.

Shares of Infosys hit their 52-week high level at ₹2,006.80 on 13 December 2024, while the 52-week low level was at ₹1,307.10 on 7 April 2025, according to the data collected from the BSE website. The IT company's market capitalisation (M-Cap) stood at over ₹6.09 trillion as of the stock market close on Thursday, 6 November 2025.

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