Trump Media Announces Share Repurchase Authorization
- Board authorizes substantial $400 million stock buyback program
- Strong cash position with $3 billion on balance sheet
- Maintains separate $2.3 billion Bitcoin treasury strategy
- Flexibility to repurchase convertible notes
- Potential for enhanced shareholder value through share reduction
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Insights
Trump Media's $400M buyback signals confidence and aims to boost shareholder value while maintaining strong $3B cash position.
The $400 million share repurchase authorization represents a significant capital allocation decision that could meaningfully impact Trump Media's valuation metrics. With approximately $3 billion on its balance sheet, the company is allocating roughly 13.3% of its cash reserves toward repurchasing its common stock.
This buyback program serves multiple financial purposes. First, by reducing the number of outstanding shares, the company can potentially increase earnings per share, assuming stable or growing profits. Second, share repurchases often signal management's confidence that the stock represents good value at current price levels.
What's particularly notable is how this fits within Trump Media's broader capital allocation framework. The company has explicitly stated that this buyback won't impact their previously announced Bitcoin treasury strategy, which involved a
The additional mention of potential convertible note repurchases indicates a comprehensive approach to optimizing their capital structure. By potentially reducing convertible debt, which could dilute existing shareholders upon conversion, the company appears focused on supporting shareholder value through multiple mechanisms.
The substantial
Board of Directors Approves up to
SARASOTA, Fla., June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) ("Trump Media" or the "Company"), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to
The repurchases, comprising either stocks or warrants, would be conducted through open market transactions, with repurchased shares to be retired by the Company. The timing and amount of the repurchases would be at Trump Media’s discretion, in compliance with relevant Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations.
Trump Media's CEO and Chairman Devin Nunes said, “The Board took a vote of confidence in our Company, our stock, and our strategic plans. Since Trump Media now has approximately
The Share Repurchase Authorization would be funded separately from, and would not alter, Trump Media’s previously announced Bitcoin treasury strategy, which featured a private placement offering of approximately
Additionally, the Company may, at any time and from time to time, seek to repurchase its outstanding convertible notes in open-market or privately-negotiated transactions. The Company will retain broad discretion over the terms, prices, and factors applicable to such repurchases, if any.
Cautionary Statement About Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, the plans, strategies, and prospects, both business and financial, of Trump Media. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events, including expected potential merger & acquisition activity, the rollout of products and features, the timing and price of any share or convertible note repurchases, our Bitcoin treasury strategy, the future plans, timing and potential success of the streaming services and the launch and success of our financial services and FinTech platform. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize these plans, intentions, or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Generally, statements that are not historical facts, including statements concerning possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events, or results of operations, are forward-looking statements. These statements may be preceded by, followed by, or include the words "believes," "estimates," "expects," "projects," "forecasts," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "plans," "scheduled," "anticipates," "soon," "goal," "intends," or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations that we describe in our forward-looking statements. There may be events in the future that we are not accurately able to predict, or over which we have no control.
About Trump Media
The mission of Trump Media is to end Big Tech's assault on free speech by opening up the Internet and giving people their voices back. Trump Media operates Truth Social, a social media platform established as a safe harbor for free expression amid increasingly harsh censorship by Big Tech corporations, as well as Truth+, a TV streaming platform focusing on family-friendly live TV channels and on-demand content. Trump Media is also launching Truth.Fi, a financial services and FinTech brand incorporating America First investment vehicles.
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