3.5. Buybacks
In a buyback, a company offers to buy back some of its own shares from its shareholders, at a set price. If you tender shares and the company accepts them, they leave your demat account and the money arrives in your bank account. No trade happens on the exchange, so your tradebook never shows it. Without a record of the buyback, Tradestory would keep counting shares you no longer hold.
Tradestory knows when companies hold buybacks. When you held a stock on a buyback's record date, the day that decides who may take part, the buyback appears on Load → Buybacks, under Needs your input.
In our small tradebook, the investor held 50 shares of INFY, Infosys, on the record date of its buyback, 14 November 2025. Figure 3-3 shows the row, with the values the investor typed in.
Buybacks
Needs your input
| Symbol | Buyback ₹/sh | Record Date | Broker | Accepted Qty | Settlement Date | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INFY | 1800 | 2025-11-14 | zerodha | 10 | 2025-11-28 | pending |
Three things are yours to fill in, from your broker's or the registrar's records:
- Buyback ₹/sh, the price the company paid per share: ₹1,800 in our example.
- Accepted Qty, how many of your shares the company accepted: 10. If you did not take part, enter 0.
- Settlement Date, the day the shares left your account: 28 November 2025.
The figures in this example are illustrative. When you do this for your own holdings, use the numbers from your own records.
Choose Save, and the row moves down to Decided. INFY now shows 40 shares, and the 10 accepted shares appear as a sale at ₹1,800 against their cost of ₹1,445.80, a realised gain of ₹3,542.
Rights issues work the same way, from the other direction: shares come in. Let's look at rights issues.