SGX’s share buybacks reach $262.2m in December
Check out who made it big.
For the month of December, SGX calculated a total of 294,336,000 shares repurchased by 33 stocks with a total consideration of S$262.2 million.
According to SGX, the five stocks with the largest consideration amount in buybacks were Genting Singapore PLC, Keppel Corporation, Pacific Century Regional Developments, OCBC and SATS.
Share buybacks are a simple strategy that sees a share issuer repurchases some of its outstanding shares from shareholders through open market transactions.