March 5 (SeeNews) - Slovenian pharmaceuticals producer Krka [LJE:KRKG] has raised its own shareholdings to 5.949% from 5.932% after repurchasing 5,530 of its shares for an overall 663,885 euro ($720,221) on the Ljubljana bourse, it said.
Krka bought 989 shares at 119.0 euro each on February 23, 1,089 shares at 120.12 euro each on February 26, 1,078 shares at 120.0 euro each on February 27, 1,153 shares at 120.20 euro each on February 28, as well as 1,221 shares at 120.74 euro each on February 29, it said in a bourse filing last week.
Before the transactions, Krka held 1,945,419 of its shares. Following the repurchase, it now holds 1,950,949 own shares.
The share purchase is part of Krka's new share buyback programme, launched in July 2023, under which the company plans to acquire a maximum of just over 1.45 million own shares over the following 36 months. The maximum pecuniary amount allocated to the programme is 424.4 million euro.
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