Sony approved a buyback of up to 500 billion yen and planned to cancel 184,494,319 treasury shares

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Sony Group said on May 8, 2026 that its board approved a facility to buy back up to 230 million of its own shares for up to 500 billion yen between May 11, 2026 and May 10, 2027. Sony also decided to cancel 184,494,319 shares of treasury stock, the shares a company holds itself, with the cancellation planned for May 29, 2026. It said it had revised its policy to keep the treasury stock it expects to use for stock compensation and, in principle, to cancel the rest. The notice is in a Form 6-K, a foreign company's report to the SEC of what it has made public at home, dated May 8, 2026.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7^,8