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Because the outstanding number of shares declines. If you have 100 stocks in the market worth 100 dollars each, i.e. a market share of 10000, and a company buys 10 back then each outstanding stock would be worth 111 dollars. There are more dynamics at play but that’s the basic idea behind buybacks.
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