Promoters won’t take part in Infosys’ ₹18,000-crore share buyback: Names like Nandan Nilekani and Sudha Murthy included in it; Promoters hold 13% stake in the company

Infosys’ promoters and promoter group have decided not to participate in the company’s Rs 18,000 crore share buyback program. The promoters and promoter group of the company include big names like Nandan Nilekani and Sudha Murthy.

The company gave this information in its regulatory filing on Wednesday (October 22). The promoters of the company held a total of 13.05% stake at the time of the buyback announcement. This also includes Sudha Murthy, wife of company co-founder NR Narayana Murthy, his daughter Akshata Murthy and son Rohan Murthy.

Apart from this, co-founder Nandan Nilekani, his wife Rohini Nilekani and their children Nihar and Jhanvi Nilekani are also part of the promoter group. The other co-founders and their families also have stakes in the company.

Share buyback was approved in the board meeting

Infosys had approved the largest-ever share buyback of Rs 18,000 crore in its board meeting on September 11, 2025. Under this, the company will buy 10 crore fully paid-up equity shares, whose face value is Rs 5 per share. This constitutes 2.41% of the total equity share capital. The buyback price has been fixed at Rs 1,800 per share.

The company said that this buyback is being done keeping in mind the medium term strategic and operating cash requirements. Along with this, Infosys wants to effectively return additional funds to shareholders under its capital allocation policy.

The company will gradually increase the dividend every year

According to this policy, from FY 2025, the company will return approximately 85% of its free cash flow to shareholders in the next five years through dividends or share buyback/special dividend. The company also says that it will gradually increase the dividend (except special dividend) every year.

The company did three buybacks from 2017 to 2020.

This buyback is expected to dilute the equity base, thereby enhancing value for shareholders in the long run. Infosys had earlier done its first buyback of Rs 13,000 crore in 2017, in which 11.3 crore shares were purchased. After this, there was buyback of Rs 8,260 crore in 2019 and Rs 9,300 crore in 2022.

Company’s shares fell 20% in one year

On Tuesday, Infosys shares closed at Rs 1,472 with a gain of 0.72% on BSE. The company’s shares have fallen 20% in the last one year. The market cap of the company is Rs 6.10 lakh crore.

Narayan Murthy started the company in 1981

Infosys is a large Indian IT company, started in 1981 in Bangalore. It provides services like consulting, software development, cloud and AI, and has more than 3 lakh employees worldwide. The CEO and Managing Director of the company is Salil Parekh.

Infosys was started in 1981 by Narayana Murthy along with six partners. Nandan Nilekani, Chris Gopalakrishnan, S.D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, N.S. Raghavan and Ashok Arora. Murthy is considered its main founder. It started at just $250.

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