Tokyo Electron spent ¥109.08bn buying back 1,697,600 of its own shares in July 2026, according to a monthly repurchase status report filed with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau covering the period July 1 to July 31, 2026. That single month of activity pushed cumulative repurchases under the current program to 1,904,700 shares for a total of ¥120.55bn by July 31.
The program itself is bigger and older than the July numbers suggest. Tokyo Electron's board authorized the buyback on May 29, 2026, capping it at 7,500,000 shares or ¥150bn, whichever binds first, over an acquisition window running from June 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027. The July filing is simply the latest monthly snapshot of progress against that standing authorization, not a new mandate.
Two months into a roughly ten-month window, the company has already used 80.37% of the yen ceiling but only 25.40% of the share-count ceiling. Spending money faster than it retires shares implies the average price paid has been well above the level implied if the full share count were bought at a flat rate, though the filing itself does not comment on price trends or market conditions.
On the disposal side, the only shares that left treasury in July were 34,600 shares issued against stock option exercises, for a nominal total of ¥34,600, the amount option holders paid in on exercise. The filing records no share cancellations, third-party allotments, or merger-related transfers during the month; it does not address whether any such disposals occurred earlier in the program. At month end, Tokyo Electron held 13,735,877 treasury shares against 468,032,733 total shares issued. The report is filed under Article 24-6, Paragraph 1 of Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.