On the evening of January 30, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Company sounded the rallying call, using real gold to convey confidence in the company's operation and development, and collectively maintaining the stability of the company's stock price with practical actions. Among them, 18 companies newly issued repurchase plans, and 4 companies newly announced plans to increase holdings.
* The Times reporter noticed that among the 22 Shanghai companies that announced the repurchase and increased their holdings that night, 19 companies on the Science and Technology Innovation Board were listed. Up to now, a total of 145 companies on the Science and Technology Innovation Board are implementing repurchase plans, with a total planned repurchase ceiling of more than 16 billion yuan, of which 23 are 50 companies with a total planned repurchase ceiling of more than 6 billion yuan.
It is worth mentioning that while disclosing the repurchase plan, shareholding increase plan, repurchase progress and other announcements, the Science and Technology Innovation Board also disclosed the specific action plan for improving quality, efficiency and return in the announcement, so as to convey to the market the development concept of "investor-oriented" listed companies and the confidence to maintain the stability of the company's stock price and jointly promote the smooth operation of the market.
Open a new chapter of "improving quality and efficiency and repaying returns".
On the evening of January 30, 40 companies on the Science and Technology Innovation Board disclosed the relevant announcements of the action plan of "improving quality and efficiency and emphasizing returns", taking the improvement of investor returns as the basic starting point and the repurchase of shares as an important fulcrum, and put forward specific measures for the company to maintain the stability of the stock price, including repurchases, dividends, and extension of the lock-up period by shareholders, etc., to clearly convey the company's mission of actively repaying investors and maintaining the company's market image.
Kechuang 50 Company and Cathay Biotech, a leading synthetic biology company, disclosed the progress of the repurchase and the announcement of the action plan for improving quality and efficiency and re-returning. According to the disclosure, the company has repurchased nearly 50 million yuan, and has significantly accelerated the speed and intensity of the repurchase recently. As a leading enterprise in the long-chain diacid industry, Cathay Biotech has accumulated all-round advantages in the field of long-chain diacids other than sebacic acid, and is expected to continue to maintain its own market share.
The company said that it will continue to be committed to becoming a platform chip company for analog and embedded processors, continue to consolidate the signal chain product line, further strengthen the power management product line, and promote the balanced development of the overall revenue structure; The company proposed a repurchase plan of 100 million yuan to 200 million yuan in the plan, demonstrating the confidence and value recognition of the company's future development prospects.
Constantly throwing out new buybacks and new increase plans
Shanghai companies continue to throw out new repurchase and new shareholding plans, and take multiple measures to form a joint force to inject incremental funds into the market. Based on their confidence in the future development prospects and the recognition of the company's value, many companies such as Tuojing Technology, Xindian Software, Xinquan Co., Ltd., and Bei Yi have proposed new repurchase plans.
Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine and Health Industry Group, the controlling shareholder of Kangenbei, threw out an increase plan to convey market confidence, and planned to increase its holdings of the company's shares through centralized bidding transactions, and the proportion of shares to be increased in total share capital is not less than 2% and not more than 4%.
Haitong**, a company in the SSE 180 index, also disclosed a repurchase plan, saying that it will maintain the company's value and shareholders' rights and interests, promote the healthy, stable and sustainable development of the company, and intends to repurchase the company's shares with its own funds in the next three months, with a maximum repurchase amount of 600 million yuan.
As the leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer in China, Shengmei Shanghai's "key minority" expressed their confidence in the company's long-term development in the form of an increase in holdings, and the company's three executives took action the next day after disclosing the shareholding plan.
Taking the Science and Technology Innovation Board as an example, since 2024, there have been 28 new repurchase plans on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, and more than 10 companies plan to repurchase the upper limit of 100 million yuan or more. Among them, Focuslight Technology has thrown out a repurchase plan for the third time since 2023, with a planned repurchase amount of 25 million yuan to 50 million yuan. Focusing on the basic scientific research and development of photonic technology and expanding the application fields of potential innovations, Focuslight completed the acquisition of Suss Microoptics SA in Switzerland this month, and simultaneously launched a new round of repurchase plan, the repurchased shares will be used for employee equity incentives, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of the company's management personnel and core backbones, and demonstrating the company's confidence in gradually showing synergies and sustainable development after the integration of the target company.
Behind the repurchase and increase is the confidence of listed companies in their future performance. Also taking the Science and Technology Innovation Board as an example, since the beginning of the year, the Science and Technology Innovation Board companies have successively released performance forecasts, and nearly sixty percent of the companies have achieved profits, with JinkoSolar's net profit exceeding 7 billion yuan and Transsion Holdings' net profit of 5 billion yuan. Nearly half of the company's net profit increased year-on-year, and Zhongke Flying Measurement, Arctech, and Sunshine Guojian were among the top gainers.
Otway will continue to achieve rapid development in 2023, achieve the goal of more than 10 billion orders ahead of schedule, the year-on-year growth of operating income and net profit is expected to exceed 70%, the global market share of the company's core products will exceed 60%, and the semiconductor silicon carbide copper wire bonding machine will be successfully developed, and the semiconductor single crystal furnace will obtain orders from foreign customers for the first time, achieving zero breakthrough in the company's semiconductor equipment exports. In 2023, the company has repurchased the company** twice, and in addition, it has also implemented cash dividends to enhance investor returns while demonstrating confidence in good performance.
MGI uses actual buybacks to improve investor returns and effectively safeguard the interests of shareholders. As of January 30, the company has repurchased 54.66 million yuan in the month, and the cumulative repurchase has reached 17.4 billion yuan. In the first three quarters of 2023, the company added more than 640 new sales and installed units, and the cumulative number of installed units sold worldwide exceeded 3,100 units. In 2023, the company expects the sales revenue of the gene sequencer segment to increase by about 30% year-on-year.