Sony raised its share buyback ceiling from 150 billion to 250 billion yen

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Sony Group's board resolved on Feb 26, 2026 to raise the maximum amount of its share repurchase from 150 billion yen to 250 billion yen, and the maximum number of shares from 55 million to 90 million. Sony gave as its reason a wish to repurchase its own shares more flexibly, in light of its repurchase progress, trends in the stock market and other factors. As of Feb 20, 2026, it had repurchased 28,401,000 shares for 106,887,883,460 yen under the resolutions of Nov 11, 2025 and Feb 5, 2026. The notice is in Sony's Form 6-K, the report a foreign company files with the SEC, filed on Feb 26, 2026.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6