Treasury shares

The authorizations granted by the Annual General Meeting in connection with the disposal or repurchase of own shares can be read here.

Disposal of own shares based on share plans

On February 25, 2026, a total of 232 692 of Alma Media Corporation’s treasury shares were conveyed without consideration and according to the plan terms to the key employee participating in the senior management Matching Share Plan 2023 and middle management’s and selected key persons’ Performance Share Plan 2023. More details of these Long-Term incentive plans have been announced in a stock exchange release issued on 16 February 2023. The directed share issue is based on an authorisation given by the Annual General Meeting held on 10 April 2025. Following the directed share issue, the number of treasury shares now stands at 284 shares.

On March 5, 2025, a total of 218 968 of Alma Media Corporation’s treasury shares were conveyed without consideration and according to the plan terms to the key management participating in the Performance Share Plan 2022 and Matching Share Plan 2022 of the company’s Long-Term Incentive Schemes launched in 2022. More details of these Long-Term incentive plans were announced in a stock exchange release issued on 16 February 2022.

On February 27, 2024, a total of 257 945 of Alma Media Corporation’s treasury shares were conveyed without consideration and according to the plan terms to the key management participating in the Performance Share Plan 2021 and Matching Share Plan 2021 of the company’s Long-Term Incentive Schemes launched in 2021. More details of these Long-Term incentive plans were announced in a stock exchange release issued on 7 April 2021. The directed share issue was based on an authorisation given by the Annual General Meeting held on 4 April 2023.

On 16 March, 2023, a total of 128 828 of Alma Media Corporation’s treasury shares were conveyed without consideration and according to the plan terms to the key management participating in the LTI 2015 IV and Performance Share Plan 2020 of the company’s Long-Term Incentive Schemes launched in 2015 and 2020. More details of these Long-Term incentive plans were announced in a stock exchange release issued on 27 February 2015 and on 14 February 2020. The directed share issue was based on an authorisation given by the Annual General Meeting held on 29 March 2022.

On February 24, 2022, a total of 218 092 of Alma Media Corporation’s treasury shares were conveyed without consideration and according to the plan terms to the key management participating in the LTI 2015 III, LTI 2015 IV and Performance Share Plan 2019 of the company’s Long-Term Incentive Schemes launched in 2015 and 2019. More details of these Long-Term incentive plans were announced in a stock exchange release issued on 27 February 2015 and on 18 December 2018. The directed share issue was based on an authorisation given by the Annual General Meeting held on 24 March 2021.

On 11 March 2021, Alma Media disclosed that a total of 57 630 of Alma Media Corporation’s treasury shares were conveyed without consideration and according to the plan terms to the key management participating in the LTI 2015 II of the company’s Long-Term Incentive Programme launched in 2015. The directed share issue was based on an authorisation given by the Annual General Meeting held on 29 April 2020.

Repurchase of own shares based on share plans

2024 – 2026

Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on April 10, 2025 for the implementation of the company’s share-based incentive programme. The buyback programme was initiated on April 28, 2025 and was terminated when the needed amount of shares had been purchased on February 2, 2026. The number of shares acquired was 200 000 and the average price per share was 13.5015 euros.

Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on April 5, 2024 for the implementation of the company’s share-based incentive programme. The buyback programme was initiated on April 22, 2024 and was terminated when the needed amount of shares had been purchased on February 4, 2025. The number of shares acquired was 200 000 and the average price per share was 10.7654 euros.

2023

Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on April 4, 2023 for the implementation of the company’s share-based incentive programme. The buyback programme was initiated on April 25, 2023 and was terminated when the needed amount of shares had been purchased on 19 September, 2023. The number of shares acquired was 300 000 shares and the average price per share was 9.1854 euros.

2022

Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on 29 March 2022. The buyback programme was initiated on April 1, 2022 and was terminated once all the shares had been purchased (on 27 March, 2023). The number of shares acquired was 400,000 shares, which represents approximately 0.5 per cent of all Alma Media shares. The acquired shares was used to implement the company’s share-based incentive programme.

2021

On 20 October 2021, Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on 24 March 2021. The buyback programme initiated on 25 October 2021 and was terminated when all the shares were purchased. The number of shares to be acquired was a maximum of 320,000 shares, which represented approximately 0.4 per cent of all Alma Media shares. The acquired shares were used to implement the company’s share-based incentive programme.

2020

On 29 April, Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on 29 April 2020. The buyback programme initiated on 4 May 2020 and terminated on 5 June 2020. The number of shares acquired was a maximum of 90,000 shares, which represented approximately 0.1 per cent of all Alma Media shares. The acquired shares was used to implement the company’s share-based incentive programme.

Alma Media Corporation’s Board of Directors decided on 14 February 2020 to use the buyback authorisation of Alma Media’s shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on 15 March 2019. The buyback programme initiated on 17 February 2020 and terminated on 10 March 2020. The number of shares acquired was a maximum of 90,000 shares, which represented approximately 0.1 per cent of all Alma Media shares. The acquired shares were used for implementing a share-based incentive programme.