Global Ferronickel plans to buyback 2% of shares over three years
Global Ferronickel [FNI 1.25 unch; 11% avgVol] [link] announced that its board of directors approved a buyback program to purchase up to 2% of its outstanding shares on the open market over the next three years. FNI said that it will use “internally generated funds” to make the purchases and that this “initiative is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to enhance shareholder value and reflects the Board’s confidence in the company’s long-term growth prospects.” FNI has 5,125,175,687 outstanding shares trading at P1.25/share at yesterday’s close, so it would take FNI P128 million to complete the full buyback of 102.5 million shares at the current market price.