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Infosys Offers to Buy Back $2 Billion of Shares After CEO Quits
- Vishal Sikka resigned as software company’s chief on Friday
- Resignation caused shares to plunge; buyback may stop decline
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Infosys Ltd. approved a 130 billion rupees ($2 billion) share repurchase to improve returns for stakeholders of the Indian software exporter a day after Chief Executive Officer Vishal Sikka quit amid heightened tensions between the board and founders led by ex-Chairman N R Narayana Murthy.
Asia’s No.2 software services developer voted to buy back as many as 113 million shares at 1,150 rupees apiece at a meeting on Saturday in Bangalore, according to an exchange filing. The company’s first buyback comes as cash and investments swelled to about $6.1 billion at the end of June. The meeting to consider the move was scheduled before Sikka announced his decision to resign.