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No. "Going private" is an option when a company has less than 500 shareholders. A share repurchase or buyback is when a company buys its own shares, typically in the open market, to reduce the numbers of shares outstanding. It is extremely unlikely that as result of buybacks the number of shareholders will go below 500. It would require all the others to voluntarily sell their shares.



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