Rolls-Royce (LON:RR) slips as buyback yield tightens ahead of July 30 cash check
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc dropped in early London trading on Monday, off 14.80p to 1,489.40p as of 09:51 BST. Shares trailed the FTSE 100, which gained 34.52 points at 10,713.55 just before 09:40 BST. Rolls-Royce shares slipped only slightly. The attention is on the numbers behind the buyback. With a market cap showing £124.43 billion on Google Finance, the £2.5 billion buyback book for 2026 would be about 2.0% of Rolls-Royce. The larger £7 billion to £9 billion buyback for 2026-2028 comes to between 5.6% and 7.2% of the firm.