2. Benefits of Share Buy Back
(a) Buy back can be undertaken to stop the fall in stock price.
(b) Company has a faith in its own capability and thus want to increase its own promoter holding.
(c) A remarkable way for deploying the cash reserves. (d) return ratio of a company increases by buy back.
3. Benefit to Share Holders
(a) Increase in share price in case buyback is at a premium.
(b) Reduction of outstanding shares and thus improvement in EPS (EPS is calculated by dividing net profit by outstanding shares). The ROA (Return on Asset) and ROE (Return on Equity) may improve by virtue of fall in outstanding shares and assets (in this scenario, excess cash.
4. Now key question arises is that how to benefit from announcement of buy back and a simple answer to that is that if one has a faith in the stock than one should straight away buy the stock as a buy back is a proof that company is doing well and hopes to keep on doing well and thus one is bound to get good returns.