Individuals who follow corporate actions will find a crowded record-date run in November 2026, and the bonus split buyback rights issue difference is visible across several companies on the calendar. Concord Biotech has its 1:1 bonus record date on 4 November and IndiaIPO, quoting BSE Ltd, formerly the Bombay Stock Exchange, is a Mumbai based electronic exchange where shares and other securities are traded under SEBI oversight. Read the full meaning of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) data as of 1 November, reports that it is the only company with a bonus record date in November 2026.
Gujarat Natural Resources follows on 5 November, when the record date for the split of its shares from a face value of Rs 10 to Re 1 will fall. Knowledge Marine & Engineering has its record date on 6 November for a split from Rs 5 to Re 1, as per IndiaIPO.
The buyback calendar is led by FDC which announced on 27 October that it will buy back shares at Rs 500 per share, as per A company's first offer of its shares to the public, after which the shares are listed on a stock exchange and can be bought or sold by any investor. Read the full meaning of IPO Watch. The record date is 13 November, so 12 November will be the last day on which a buyer can purchase the shares and still be eligible.
Medi Assist Healthcare Services has its buyback record date on 20 November, IndiaIPO says. Interarch Building Solutions will conclude the month with a 1:5 split, reducing the face value of its shares from Rs 10 to Rs 2, with a record date of 30 November, as per Goodreturns.
What each action does to a holding
A bonus and a split both increase the number of shares held by an investor, and market price is adjusted at the same time, so the total value of the holding does not change on account of the action. For a Concord Biotech shareholder holding 100 shares, there will be 200 shares after the bonus, with the price adjusted to half of the earlier level.
In the case of Interarch Building Solutions, a shareholder holding 100 shares will have 500 shares after the split, as the face value is divided into five parts and the price is adjusted to one fifth. The higher share count visible in the A demat account is an electronic account that holds an investor's shares, bonds, ETFs and mutual fund units in digital form instead of paper certificates. Read the full meaning of Demat Account will not add anything to the value held.
A buyback works in a different manner. The company offers to purchase shares from the shareholders at a price stated in advance, and the shareholders who tender their shares receive cash, so the number of shares they hold is reduced.
A rights issue offers new shares to the existing shareholders, and the money paid for those shares goes to the company.
Preferential allotments, in which shares are issued to selected investors, raised a larger amount in the same year.
Buyback rules, tax and the ex-date
The ex-date is the day from which a stock starts trading without the entitlement to the A dividend is a part of a company's profit that the board decides to pay to shareholders, usually in cash, in proportion to the shares held. Read the full meaning of Dividend, rights, bonus or buyback, as per a Business Standard explainer. Eligibility is based on the holders on the record date, so an investor buying on or after the ex-date does not receive the benefit.
Open-market buybacks through the stock exchanges had been suspended from 1 April 2025 and they returned on 1 August 2026, as per Mondaq. Sansa Legal reports that SEBI is the statutory regulator of India's securities market, with the legal duty to protect investors and to promote and regulate that market. Read the full meaning of SEBI had notified the amendment regulations for this purpose earlier, in July.
Mondaq, citing Sagus Legal, says an open-market buyback is now capped below 15% of paid up capital plus free reserves, and the limit is tested on both standalone and consolidated financials. The buyback must open within 4 working days of the public announcement and close within 66 working days of opening.
Shares held by the promoters and their associates are frozen from board approval until the buyback closes, unless the promoters tender in a tender offer, Whalesbook reports. Outlook Money adds that a merchant banker is no longer mandatory, and a company cannot announce a buyback if it would breach the minimum public shareholding limit.
On tax, buyback proceeds are taxed as capital gains in the shareholder's hands from 1 April 2026, with the cost of acquisition allowed, as per Mondaq.
The Medi Assist record date, which follows the FDC date, is the next buyback date to watch.
