Coal India may go for 1% buyback

| TNN | Updated: Jan 31, 2019, 11:53 IST
KOLKATA: Maharatna behemoth Coal India (CIL) is preparing for a second buyback in two years. The PSU coal giant has informed stock exchanges that a meeting of the company’s board of directors is scheduled on February 4, to consider and approve a buyback of the fully paid up equity shares of the company, having face value of Rs 10 each.


CIL had gone for a major buyback in 2017, when the government garnered about Rs 2,638 crore from it. CIL had bought back 7.8 crore shares from the government out of the total offer of 10.9 crore equity shares for Rs 335 each. Currently, the promoter, the government owns 72.91% of CIL.


It is learnt that this time CIL is likely to buy back 1% or a little lesser, of the paid up equity of the company. The coal major has 620 crore shares and the buyback would be for less than 6.2 crore shares. Coal India has a reserve of over Rs 20,000 crore


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