Report: ByteDance Plans New Share Buyback at $400 Billion Valuation, Up 20% From a Year Ago
IT之家, November 13 — Bloomberg, citing The Information, reported today Beijing time that ByteDance said in a letter to investors that it plans a new $6 billion share buyback.
The buyback price is $241.35 per share, corresponding to an overall valuation of $400 billion (IT之家 note: roughly 2.67 trillion yuan at current exchange rates). That figure is 20% higher than the level at the previous buyback a year earlier.

People familiar with the matter said ByteDance also proposed pushing back the deadline for "going public or granting outside shareholders the right to sell all of their holdings" by four years, to December 11, 2030; the company also detailed in the document a plan to offer employees in its AI division a total of 300 million shares tied to the value of the AI business.
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