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Buybacks, but make it auction style
Expensify (EXFY) said Friday it finished its modified Dutch auction tender offer and bought back 6.05 million shares of Class A common stock at $1.20 apiece. The company had initially set the table for up to $25 million of buybacks, which is basically the corporate version of saying, “We’ll take that whole basket, please.”
Why you should care
A tender offer like this does two things at once: it tells you management thinks the stock is cheap enough to repurchase, and it reduces the number of shares floating around. Fewer shares can mean the same profit pie gets sliced into thinner-but-more-lovable pieces for everyone still holding on.
The fine print, in plain English
- Expensify used a modified Dutch auction, so shareholders could decide at what price they wanted to sell.
- The company ended up repurchasing 6.05 million shares at $1.20 each.
- That puts real cash to work in the stock instead of leaving it on the sidelines.
Big picture: this isn’t flashy, but it’s the kind of move that can quietly reshape a stock’s math — especially if the market already thinks the company is trading at a bargain basement valuation.