Ericsson Repurchases Shares October 5-9, 2026
Ericsson repurchased nearly 8 million Class B shares between October 5-9, 2026, as part of its ongoing SEK 15 billion share buyback program.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) repurchased 7,917,288 of its own Class B shares during the period of October 5 to October 9, 2026. The total value of these transactions amounted to over SEK 746 million.
These repurchases are part of Ericsson's previously announced share buyback program, authorized up to SEK 15 billion. This program commenced on April 23, 2026, and is scheduled to conclude by March 31, 2027. The company's board intends to propose at the 2027 Annual General Meeting that the repurchased shares be cancelled, excluding any shares required to fulfill obligations under employee incentive programs.
Following these transactions, Ericsson's treasury stock holding totals 125,805,951 Class B shares. The company has a total of 3,371,351,735 shares outstanding, consisting of 261,755,983 Class A shares and 3,109,595,752 Class B shares.
The share repurchases were conducted on Nasdaq Stockholm through Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and were executed in accordance with the EU's Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).