April 3 (SeeNews) - Turkish airport operator TAV Airports Holding [IST:TAVHL] said it has purchased 115,000 of its own shares at an average price of 16.27 lira ($2.42/2.24 euro).
The transaction was carried out on April 2, the company said in a notice on Thursday.
Its shares traded at 16.02 lira apiece as of 13:54 local time on Friday on the stock exchange in Istanbul, 1.54% lower compared to the closing price the previous day.
TAV Airports said in mid-March it plans to buy back 200 million lira worth of shares in order to contain the effect of market changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
In Southeast Europe, TAV operates two airports in North Macedonia - in Skopje and Ohrid - as well as the Zagreb airport in Croatia.
(1 euro = 7.25388 lira)