SEC Adopts Amendments to Modernize Share Repurchase Disclosure
The amendments will improve disclosure and provide investors with enhanced information to assess the purposes and effects of share repurchases.
- The amendments will improve disclosure and provide investors with enhanced information to assess the purposes and effects of share repurchases.
- “In 2021, buybacks amounted to nearly $950 billion and reportedly reached more than $1.25 trillion in 2022,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
- “Today’s amendments will increase the transparency and integrity of this significant means by which issuers transact in their own securities.
- That’s good for investors, issuers, and the markets.”
The amendments will require issuers to disclose daily quantitative share repurchase information either quarterly or semi-annually.