Plus500 Shares Continue Rising, Repurchases 16K of Own Shares

Plus500, an online trading provider of contracts for differences (CFDs), announced this Wednesday through the news service of the London Stock Exchange Stock Exchange A stock exchange, also known as a securities exchange or bourse represents is a facility where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities.This includes shares of stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), or other financial instruments. By extension, stock exchanges can also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of such securities and instruments and capital events including the payment of income and dividendsStock exchanges have developed into a permanent fixture in the fin A stock exchange, also known as a securities exchange or bourse represents is a facility where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities.This includes shares of stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), or other financial instruments. By extension, stock exchanges can also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of such securities and instruments and capital events including the payment of income and dividendsStock exchanges have developed into a permanent fixture in the fin Read this Term that it has purchased more than 16 thousand of its own ordinary shares.

The latest batch of shares was purchased on the 19th of May 2020, in which the broker purchased 16,274 of its ordinary shares, each through Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited.

Overall, the volume weighted average price paid per share was £13.44. Therefore, Plus500 paid around £218,722.56 for the shares. The lowest price paid per share was £13.26 and the highest price paid per share was £13.57.

Plus500 shares rally

Over Friday and the weekend, Plus500’s share price surged, rising from £12.66 on Friday, the 15th of May, and reaching £13.64 this Wednesday at 08:12 (GMT+1), having peaked at £13.77 on Tuesday, which is the strongest share price achieved by the broker in over a year.

This is the second batch of shares that Plus500 has bought this week, with the Israel based broker buying more of its shares every weekday, as part of its share buyback program which was announced on the 12th of February 2020 and will see the company repurchase $30 million of its shares.

In particular, on the 18th of May 2020, Plus500 bought 22,500 of its ordinary shares, at a volume weighted average price of £13.12 per share, contributing to an overall price of £295,200.

Overall, Plus500’s share price has had consistent upward momentum since the 16th of March 2020. The beginning of this rise coincided with the London listed broker revealing that it was benefiting from coronavirus-fuelled volumes in a trading update, which it published on March 16.

AsFinance Magnates reported, it has continued to see a significantly increased level of customer trading activity since its last trading update.