Engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro’s board on Thursday approved the company’s first buyback in its 80 years, for up to 4.29 per cent of its paid-up equity capital, aggregating to a value of about Rs 90 billion. In terms of amount proposed, the buyback is the fifth largest by any Indian company.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) have moved higher by 2% to Rs 1,349 on the BSE after its board approved the proposal for buyback of equity shares of upto Rs 90 billion at a maximum price of Rs 1,500 per share.

“The board of directors of the Company at its meeting held today has approved a proposal to buyback up to 60 million equity shares of the Company being 4.29% of the total paid up equity share capital, at a maximum price of Rs 1,500 per share for an aggregate amount of Rs 90 billion,” L&T said in a statement.

Larsen and Toubro’s (L&T) buyback proposal, which will be considered by the company’s board on August 23, could be of up to `12,300 crore based on its net worth, debt, cash and bank balances, and investments in securities, bonds and debentures. As on March 31, 2018, L&T’s net worth stood at ` 49,174.25 crore on a standalone basis, while its cash and bank balances, investments in securities, bonds and debentures stood at `17,425 crore on a consolidated basis, according to Bloomberg data.

Top developers in Bengaluru such as Salarpuria Sattva have bid for a land parcel of 14 acres being sold by engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in the city, said sources.

The land parcel is estimated to fetch the company between Rs 8 billion and Rs 10 billion. The land has development potential of 4 million square feet, and it could become the largest land deal in south India this year.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said its construction arm has won orders worth Rs 12.96 billion across business segments in the domestic market.

L&T said its metallurgical and material handling business has received orders worth Rs 8.08 billion.

Larsen & Tourbo (L&T) on Thursday divested its stake in L&T Technology Services to comply with the 25 per cent minimum public shareholding requirement. The engineering giant is offering up to 6.6 million shares, representing 6.6 per cent stake, through the so-called offer for sale (OFS) route.

So far, the offering has garnered bids for 5.34 million shares from institutional investors.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an engineering major perceived as a proxy to core sector economic activity, is seeing its services portfolio getting strengthened. A closer look at the company’s financial performance in the June quarter reveals it is coming out of its traditional image.

Contribution from the services sector to L&T’s order inflow in April-June 2018 was an impressive 21.8 per cent, second to infrastructure that continued to be high at 42.9 per cent.

Engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday reported a 36 per cent year-on-year rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 12.14 billion during the April-June quarter, against Rs 8.92 billion a year ago, helped by increase in revenue and improved operational efficiency.

Shares of L&T Technology Services (LTTS) have rallied 14% to Rs 1,485 per share on the BSE in early morning trade after the company reported a more-than-double net profit of Rs 1,981 million in June quarter (Q1FY19). The L&T group company had profit of Rs 980 million in the year ago quarter.

L& T Finance Holdings on Friday said its net profit grew 71 per cent to Rs 5.38 billion for the quarter ended June 2018 (Q1), compared to Rs 3.14 billion a year ago. The finance arm of Larsen & Toubro has prepared financial statement for Q1 according to the new accounting rules Indian Accounting Standards, which came into effect from April 1, 2018.

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