Notice: 30 Oct 2017, is the last day to buy Infosys shares to be eligible for the buyback. Shares bought 31 Oct 2017 onwards will not be eligible for the buyback.
Update: 1 Nov 2017 is the Record date for determining the eligibility of shareholders for the Infosys Buyback offer. What this means is that the shareholders will be eligible for the buyback if they have Infosys shares in their Demat account as of 1 Nov 2017. After the list of eligible shareholders is determined on 1 Nov, a Letter of Offer/Tender form will be sent to the registered email ids of the entire list. Please note that 31 Oct 2017 is the Ex-date and the last date to buy the shares to be eligible for the buyback offer is 30 Oct 2017 as it takes 2 days for the shares to be credited to your Demat account.
Here are the offer details: The Company proposes to Buyback shares of up to Rs 13,000 crore, or 4.92 per cent of the equity share capital, from investors at Rs 1,150 per share.
The Buyback will be executed via the Tender offer route. SEBI mandates that 15% of the total Buyback size has to be kept aside for retails investors(those holding shares worth up to Rs 2 lakh on the record date), which means Infy will have to set aside Rs 1,950 crore to buy shares from retail investors.
If you are an eligible shareholder of Infosys as of the buyback record date, then you will receive a Tender form to your registered email id from the Company’s RTA(Registrar and Transfer agents). The primary detail you need to fill in the form is the number of shares offered by you for the Buyback. An image of this portion of a typical tender form is shown below -
You can place a Bid for a minimum of 1 share to a maximum of the number of shares in your holding as of Record date. You’ll have to mention the number of shares you wish to tender/offer in the Buyback tender form and send a softcopy of this tender form in an email to ‘[email protected]’.
Zerodha will transfer your offered shares to the RTA and will place your bid for the buyback. A Transaction Registration Slip(TRS) will be sent to you by Zerodha after placement of your bid which will include your bid details including bid quantity, bid rate and bid value. After allotment, if there are shares of yours in excess of eligible Buyback entitlement, the excess shares will be transferred back to your Demat account by the RTA.
The allotted Buyback amount will be credited directly to your bank account by the company’s RTA.
New procedure to tender shares at Zerodha for the buyback: