RE:Share Buybacks vs. Special DividendCurrent NCIB is far from exhaustion. Not that it matters much. They renew NCIB on an annual basis in mid-December. We are less than a month away from the next renewal.
FYI... NCIB specifies two quotas:
1. daily buy back quota on the open market = 25% of the average daily volume in the last 6 months before renewal
2. annual quota = 10% of the public float
They can do block trades in excess of the daily quota, but block trades are still subject to the annual quota. Once they exhaust the annual quota, it's a full stop for the year.
Average daily volume is up year over year. The next NCIB should bump the daily quota from 18K shares a day to 22-25K shares a day.