Trend Micro Announces New Capital Allocation Strategy to Increase Shareholder Value

DALLAS, Feb.

The amount of excess capital will be consistent with the companies guiding principal of being a sustainable, superior performing business while accounting for obligations to pay dividends in the future.

As a first step in this direction, Trend has announced up to 50Bn JPY share buybacks in the near future, with 25Bn JPY to start immediately.

Alongside this new capital allocation strategy, Trend has revealed a brand refresh designed to cement the firm’s emerging status as an expansive SaaS-First security platform provider serving over 400,000 enterprise customers in nearly every country.

Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro, said, “Although we see some economic headwinds facing our industry, our plan to invest in growth remains unchanged as the cybersecurity requirements of our customers are constantly evolving.

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As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response.

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