Infosys board approves up to Rs 13,000 cr buyback offer
August 19, 2017 15:15 ISTInfosys will buy back 11.3 crore shares at Rs 1,150 apiece, returning cash to investors at almost 25 per cent premium to the Friday’s closing price of Rs 923.10
Infosys will buy back 11.3 crore shares at Rs 1,150 apiece, returning cash to investors at almost 25 per cent premium to the Friday’s closing price of Rs 923.10
Interestingly, the Infosys board blamed founder NR Narayana Murthy for Sikka’s resignation and the open spat led to company stocks plummeting nearly 10 per cent, with its market valuation falling by over Rs 22,518 crore.
For the week, both Sensex and Nifty recorded a gain of 311.09 points, or 0.99 percent, and 126.60 points, or 1.30 per cent, respectively. This is markets' sixth weekly rise in seven.
"My concern primarily was the deteriorating standard of corporate governance which I have repeatedly brought to the notice of the Infosys board," Murthy said
The Infosys founder claimed that at least three Independent Directors of the company told him that Vishal Sikka was “more chief technology officer (CTO) material than chief executive officer (CEO) material”
Vishal Sikka was the first non-promoter CEO at the helm at the $10 billion company
“Mr. Murthy’s continuous assault, including this latest letter, is the primary reason that the CEO, Dr. Vishal Sikka, has resigned despite strong board support,” Infosys informed the stock exchange.
After resigning as Infosys MD and CEO, Vishal Sikka made public his resignation letter on micro-blogging site Twitter.
In a letter to Infosys board members, Vishal Sikka cited “personal” attacks as one of the reasons for his resignation.
The buyback announcement by Infosys comes close on the heels after rivals TCS and Wipro
“The company has asked, for business reasons, MD Ranganath, the CFO, to operate from the US,” Infosys said in a filing on Friday.
Infosys maintained its revenue growth forecast for 2017- 18 to be in the range of 6.5-8.5 per cent in constant currency and 7.1-9.1 per cent in US dollar terms
Besides Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, S. Gopalakrishnan, S.D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, N.S. Raghavan and Ashok Arora are the co-founders of India's second-largest software export firm.
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Sandeep Dadlani, who was serving as president and head of manufacturing, retail, CPG and logistics, has put in his papers. His role is now being split with Karmesh Vaswani and Nitesh Banga
In April, Sikka cited 'unanticipated execution challenges and distractions' as a reason for slow revenue growth in the quarter ended March. In February, Murthy had gone public against the company
With this, the company stood at the eighth position in the top-10 m-cap ranking chart, ahead of Infosys and ONGC.
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