SHENZHEN, China, December 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Xunlei Limited ("Xunlei" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: XNET), China's leading provider of acceleration products and services, today announced that its board of directors has approved an up to US$20 million share repurchase program to repurchase Xunlei's issued and outstanding shares.
"Our management team and Board of Directors have a strong conviction in our core business and long-term prospects. We believe repurchasing our shares is a prudent use of our cash and are pleased that our financial position also allows us to start building Xunlei's track record of returning value to shareholders," Mr. Sean Zou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xunlei, commented.
Xunlei's share repurchases may be made in accordance with applicable laws and regulations through open market transactions, privately negotiated transactions or other legally permissible means as determined by Xunlei's management, including through Rule 10b5-1 share repurchase plans. Xunlei expects to implement this share repurchase program over the next 12 months. The timing and extent of any purchases will depend upon market conditions, the trading price of its ADSs and other factors. Xunlei's Board of Directors will review the share repurchase program periodically, and may authorize adjustment of its terms and size accordingly.
The share repurchase program will be funded using Xunlei's existing cash balance. As of 30 September, 2014, Xunlei had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of approximately US$433 million.
About Xunlei
Xunlei Limited ("Xunlei") is one of the top 10 largest Chinese Internet companies, with an average of approximately 309 million monthly unique visitors as at September of 2014, according to iResearch. Xunlei is the No. 1 acceleration product provider in China as measured by market share. Xunlei operates a powerful Internet platform in China based on cloud computing to provide users with quick and easy access to digital media content through its core products and services, Xunlei Accelerator and the cloud acceleration subscription services. Xunlei is increasingly extending into mobile devices in part through potentially pre-installed acceleration products in mobile phones and to living rooms through TV coverage. Benefitting from the large user base accumulated by Xunlei Accelerator, Xunlei has further developed various value-added services, including Xunlei Kankan, online game and pay per view, to meet a fuller spectrum of its users' digital media content access and consumption needs.
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IR Contact:
Mr. Yuanyuan Chen (English and Chinese)
Investor Relations Director
Mobile +86 139-2337-7882 or +852 6954-7509 in Shenzhen
chenyuanyuan@xunlei.com
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