TORONTO, May 30, 2016 /CNW/ - Royal Bank of Canada ("RY" on TSX and NYSE) today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange has approved its normal course issuer bid to purchase, for cancellation, up to 20 million of its common shares.
The shares that may be repurchased represent approximately 1.3 per cent of the bank's outstanding common shares. As of May 20, 2016 there were 1,488,261,713 common shares of the bank outstanding.
Purchases under the normal course issuer bid may commence on June 1, 2016 and continue until May 31, 2017, when the bid expires. Purchases may be made through the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and other designated exchanges and alternative Canadian trading systems. The price paid for any repurchased shares will be the prevailing market price at the time of acquisition.
The amount of purchases on any given day will not exceed 694,769 common shares, which is 25 per cent of the average daily trading volume on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the six months ending April 30, 2016. The average daily trading volume of the bank's shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange for that six-month period, calculated in accordance with the rules of the Toronto Stock Exchange for the purposes of the bid, was 2,779,075 shares.
The normal course issuer bid will give us the flexibility to manage the Bank's capital position while generating shareholder value.
The bank's previous normal course issuer bid commenced on November 1, 2014 and expired on October 31, 2015. Over the term of the previous bid, the bank did not purchase any shares.
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We caution that the foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect our results. When relying on our forward-looking statements to make decisions with respect to us, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. Material economic assumptions underlying the forward looking statements contained in this press release are set out in the Overview and outlook section and for each business segment under the heading Outlook and priorities of our 2015 Annual Report, as updated by the Overview section of our Q2 2016 Report to Shareholders. Additional information about these and other factors can be found in the Risk management and Overview of other risks sections of our 2015 Annual Report and in the Risk management section of our Q2 2016 Report to Shareholders. Except as required by law, we do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement contained in this press release.
SOURCE RBC
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