Dr Reddy’s Lab soars on getting nod for Rs 1,500 crore share buyback plan

18 Feb 2016 Evaluate

Dr. Reddys Laboratories is currently trading at Rs 3078.95, up by 117.90 points or 3.98% from its previous closing of Rs. 2961.05 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 3041.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 3097.45 and Rs. 3020.00 respectively. So far 30499 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 4382.95 on 20-Oct-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 2750.00 on 21-Jan-2016.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 3097.45 and Rs. 2814.80 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 52649.52 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 31.21% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 53.10% and 15.68% respectively.

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories has received its board’s approval to buy back equity shares of the company for an aggregate amount not exceeding Rs 1,569.4 crore at a price not exceeding Rs 3,500 a share.

Shares will be bought from all shareholders of the Hyderabad-based company, including persons who become shareholders by cancelling American depository receipts and receiving the underlying equity shares, under the open market route in accordance with existing norms. The maximum buyback price represents 18.6 per cent premium to the average of the weekly high and low of the closing share price of the company in the last two weeks.

At the maximum buyback price and for the maximum buyback size, the indicative maximum number of equity shares to be bought back would be 44.84 lakh.

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