Share buyback by these 2 companies at 40% premium: Know details

Kolkata: Experts point out that share buybacks happens when a company purchases its own outstanding stocks, thereby reducing the number of shares in the market. It immediately raises the value of the remaining shares. Managements often conduct share buybacks to convey confidence in their financial stability. Sometimes it can also reduce the risk of a shareholder gaining controlling interest/unwanted takeover.

Two companies have announced buybacks -- Tracxn Technologies and Tanla Platforms. let's have a close loom at the two stocks.

On Thursday morning (July 31, 2025), the share price of Tracxn Technologies was Rs 56.50, down Rs 1.08 or 1.88%. This company tracks/curates data on startups and says it tracks over 40 lakh businesses and more than 72,900 investors. One can access the databank through subscriptions.

The 52-week high and 52-week low of this share is Rs 107.95 and Rs 47.71 respectively. It will buy back 10 lakh shares which constitutes about 1% of the outstanding equity shares. The buyback price is Rs 75. The size of the repurchase of shares will amount to Rs 80 crore and is 23.7% of its capital and reserves.

The business of Tracxn Technologies is said to span more than 50 nations. The top regions are India, the US, the UK, Singapore and Germany. International revenue generated 60% of the total revenue in FY25. The share of India jumped from 30% in FY21 to 40% of the total revenue in FY25. The company's revenue crawled up 2% to Rs 84.5 crore in FY25 and it posted a Rs 9.5 crore net loss. A big jump in deferred tax expense which touched Rs 15.7 crore severely impacted the company's bottomline.

Tracxn Technologies has said that they can see early signs of recovery in global customers. Volumes in this segment rose 26% in FY25 compared to 5dip in FY24. Volumes in India jumped 65% in FY25 compared to 20% in FY24.

Tanla Platforms is considered a major player in the communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) business and enjoys a 30% market share according to reports. This service enables companies to communicate with their customers and is present across in services such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Truecaller, Chatbot etc. In the business of data security, privacy, spam, and scam detection, this company enjoys a 35% market share. According to reports, it accounts for about 63% of India’s A2P SMS traffic and processes more than 80,000 crore transactions. The company also serves more than 2,000 clients across various industries including some top brands in banking, retail, e-commerce and tourism sectors.

On Thursday, July 31, 2025, the share price of Tanla Platforms was trading at Rs 626.50, down 12.20 or 1.91%. The 52-week high and 52-week low of this stock are Rs 1,012.80 and Rs 409.35 respectively. The company will be conducting a buyback of 20 lakh equity shares, which comprise about 1.5% of the total equity shares. The price has been fixed at Rs 875.

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According to reports, Tanla Platforms witness enterprise revenue growing 3% (y-o-y) to reach Rs 37 billion in FY25. It represents 91% of the total revenue. But digital platform revenue went down by 1.3% to reach Rs 3.6 billion that represents 9% of its total revenue. The overall revenue of the firm rose 2.5% to touch Rs 4,000 crore. But net profit dipped 7% to touch Rs 510 crore. But the free cash flow of Tanla Platforms grew 19%, which is 13% of revenue and 100% of net profit.

Tanla is passing through a challenging environment characterised by pricing pressure and shifting channel preferences. To tackle this trend, the management is pushing platform solutions and expanding the international operations.