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A company's repurchase of its own outstanding shares, reducing share count and often used to return capital to shareholders.
Metaplanet spent about 19.31 billion yen on 73,981,400 of its own shares on October 14 while arranging a 52 billion yen convertible. Full conversion would issue about 153 million shares, roughly twice the count retired.
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Metaplanet will send up to 28.3 billion yen of a 52 billion yen zero-coupon convertible to share buybacks and 23.6 billion yen to Bitcoin-backed loans. Its borrowing stood at 17.7% of Bitcoin net asset value in September, against a 10% policy ceiling.
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Wells Fargo earned $5.95 billion in the third quarter with net charge-offs of $983 million, below analyst estimates. Credit is the stronger half of the quarter: the earnings beat was 2 to 3 cents a share and net interest income missed consensus.
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KOSPI fell 3.65% to 6,384.24 on Monday, a fourth straight losing session, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix each down more than 4%. Whether their buybacks are over rests on one Hana Securities analyst's hedged note.
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Foreign investors sold a net 6.47 trillion won of Korean shares in three sessions, led by SK hynix at 3.64 trillion, as the KOSPI closed at 6,625.93. With the 55 trillion won Samsung and SK hynix buybacks ending, US CPI on the 14th and PPI on the 15th will show whether yields or flows are driving the index.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies spent about $350 million retiring 21 million of its own shares between mid-July and August 17. A company built to accumulate ether put that cash into its own stock because management says the shares trade below its holdings.
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Strategy's own buybacks made up over 20% of weekly STRC trading in most of September, Keyrock found. For holders the larger exposure is the price, since Keyrock found STRC four to eight times less liquid once it drifts more than 1% from its $100 par.
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Samsung and SK hynix are wrapping up buybacks of 15 trillion and 40 trillion won, so earnings now have to bring other investors into the two chip stocks. Franklin Templeton's Yi Ping Liao favors SK hynix because it will cancel every share it buys back.
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Nvidia closed at a record $238.90 on October 5, about 3.8% short of becoming the first company valued at $6 trillion. Getting there depends more on third-quarter revenue and the 10-year Treasury yield, now its highest since 2002, than on a bigger buyback.
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Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback, leaving $235 billion to spend by January 2028 at more than twice its first-half pace. The quarterly repurchase figure will show whether shareholders are getting a steady bid for the stock or a ceiling the board keeps raising.
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Life Asset Management told Samsung it would welcome canceling common and preferred shares together, with a 15 trillion won buyback nearly used up. The offer answers Samsung's stated worry about fairness to common holders, so the limit on canceling common stock is now a 10% legal cap on its insurers' combined stake.
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September payrolls of 29,000, against an 84,000 consensus, lifted the Nasdaq 1.2% on Friday and turned a losing week into a 0.45% gain. Every major index was down through Thursday, so the AI-led advance depends on the Fed staying on hold.
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Nvidia's board added $150 billion to its buyback, leaving $235 billion authorized through fiscal 2028. The cash comes from data-center sales, up 117% from a year earlier at $89 billion last quarter, so the companies buying Nvidia accelerators are the ones funding it.
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Samsung Electronics has finished buying back 53.8 million of its own shares, 100.96% of the plan it began in August. Its stock now goes into next week's preliminary third-quarter results with no company purchases in the market.
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Quad Asset Management wants Daeyang Electric to buy back and cancel 30 billion won of shares over three years and lift its dividend payout above 30%. The board has until Oct. 16 to answer a demand that its record profits make hard to refuse for lack of cash.
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The miner reported $1.21 billion of attributable free cash flow for the first quarter, beat its own production guidance by 39,000 ounces, and said the North American Barrick IPO is on track to complete by year end.
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Warren Buffett becomes chairman emeritus and his son Howard takes over the board while Greg Abel keeps running the company, with $4.5bn of second-quarter buybacks the only use of the cash Berkshire has disclosed.
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Life Asset Management asked Samsung's board on September 14 to approve repurchases in October and cancel the discounted preferred stock by December, four months into a return plan that runs to 2030.
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The KOSPI closed at 6,909.91 on the 11th, back below 7,000 but still up 3.33% for the week, and the memory names that led the advance fell again in New York on a day Brent dropped 2.81%.
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The deemed dividend sits three lines under the net income in the same S-1, and each outlet picked a different line. Under both is a subscription that attaches to 94% of rings and now carries the margin.
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