sparkly wrote:@mr geek i dont quite get your drift coz all the sale proceeds of the ipo went to the treasury.
it seems we have a more fundamental lack of understanding than the one about 20 cents dividends..
@Capital.. geek..
You are wrong, it was the Govt that sold its shares.. Safaricom did not sell shares to the public. I refer you to the Safaricom IPO prospectus whose first paragraph was
"Prospectus in respect of an offer for sale
by the Government of Kenya of 10,000,000,000 shares with a par value of Kenya Shillings Five Cents (KShs 0.05)each in the ordinary share capital of Safaricom (the Offer Shares ) comprising a public offer of 25% of the issued ordinary Safaricom shares (the Offer )"
But what exactly constitutes a share repurchase.. Can Safaricom repurchase shares in the market. I think it can, after all the Govt was just a shareholder just like the public now is..
Should it repurchase.. hell no! No benefits at all to repurchasing.. If you're looking for delisting, then speak to Vodaphone, maybe if they repurchase enough of the public shares, it maybe delisted. Does it make business sense for them to?? I doubt it..