September 26 (SeeNews) - Slovenian pharmaceuticals producer Krka [LJE:KRKG] said it raised its own shareholdings to 5.296% from 5.279% after repurchasing 5,463 of its shares for an overall 504,173 euro ($486,467) on the Ljubljana bourse.
Krka bought 1,037 shares at 92.91 euro each on September 16, a further 1,166 shares at 92.71 euro each on September 19, 946 shares at 92.26 euro on September 20, 1,153 shares at 92.03 euro on September 21, as well as 1,161 shares at 91.58 euro each on September 22, it said in a bourse filing on Friday.
Prior to the transactions, Krka held 1,720,055 of its own shares. Following the repurchase, it now holds 1,736,709 own shares.
The share purchase is part of Krka's new share buyback programme, launched in July 2020, under which the company plans to acquire a maximum of just over 1.84 million own shares over the following 36 months. The maximum pecuniary amount allocated to the programme is 356.4 million euro.
($ = 1.0363 euro)
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