SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics plans to buy back shares worth 10 trillion won ($7.17 billion) over a one-year period to boost shareholder value, it said in a regulatory filing submitted after the market closed on Friday.
Shares of Samsung Electronics rose 7.2% on Friday, posting the biggest daily jump since March 2024 and rebounding from their lowest level since mid-June 2020. They were still down 32% year to-date.
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(Reporting by Jihoon Lee; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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