The board of Majesco has approved a tender buyback of shares worth Rs 631.26 crore. The company will be buying back 74.7 lakh shares, around 25 percent of its outstanding equity base.

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The buyback price at Rs 845 per share is tax-free in the hands of shareholders. This is a way to distribute the entire proceeds to shareholders, Farid Kazani, Managing Director of the company said in an interview to CNBC-TV18.

The buyback and the dividend payout will happen more or less simultaneously once the company gets the shareholder and SEBI approval for the buyback.

"The reason why we are doing a share buyback first and a dividend followed immediately is to create an equitable distribution across categories of shareholders that would have different tax regimes," he said.

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First Published:Oct 8, 2020 12:53 PM IST