VNET (VNET Group) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio : -19.50% (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is VNET Group 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

5-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past five years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. VNET Group's current 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio was -19.50%.

VNET's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked worse than
85.89% of 1984 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: -2.6 vs VNET: -19.50

Competitive Comparison of VNET Group's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, VNET Group's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio data, can be viewed below:

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VNET Group's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, VNET Group's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

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VNET Group 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with least-square regression based on the latest six years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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VNET Group (NAS:VNET) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.

Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.

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VNET Group Business Description

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Address

No. 10 Jiuxianqiao East Road, Guanjie Building Southeast 1st Floor, Chaoyang District, Beijing, CHN, 100016

Website

https://www.vnet.com

VNET started as AsiaCloud in 1999 and moved to the data center business with its first self-developed data center opening in 2010. The firm listed (as 21Vianet) on the Nasdaq in April 2011, subsequently changing its name to VNET Group in 2021. It originally focused on providing data center services such as colocation and cloud services to retail clients in China, but added hyperscale customers in 2019 and now counts large Chinese hyperscalers such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Huawei Cloud as customers. At the end of March 2025, it had 51,960 retail cabinets with the majority in Beijing, Shanghai, and the Greater Bay area. It also had 573 MW of wholesale capacity in service with a further 377 MW under construction and a further 670 MW held for future development.