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ASML’s market notice of 5 October listed transactions under its current share buyback programme from 28 September to 2 October. The company repurchased 50,000, 57,000, 50,000, 60,000 and 60,000 shares on the five trading days, a total of 277,000 shares. The transactions occurred on 28–30 September and 1–2 October; the notice reported them retrospectively. This is not a future purchase target or an announcement of acquisitions that have yet to take place.

ASML reported daily weighted average prices of €1,529.45, €1,596.29, €1,609.32, €1,602.84 and €1,639.73. Its reported repurchase values for those days were €76,472,475, €90,988,564, €80,466,190, €96,170,670 and €98,384,082. The five disclosed values sum to €442,481,981. That total is an arithmetic addition of the company’s daily rows; ASML did not publish it as a separate weekly figure in this notice.

A buyback is one way for a company to return capital by purchasing its own shares. A single week’s transaction volume does not establish its effect on earnings per share or investor returns. Those assessments also depend on the programme’s overall budget and duration, shares outstanding, other capital decisions, financial results and market prices. The weighted average prices in the notice serve ASML’s transaction reporting. They are not presented here as live market quotations or as expectations of future prices.

ASML says the current programme was announced on 28 January 2026 and that the transaction disclosure is made under the European Union Market Abuse Regulation. This notice is not itself a new programme decision, spending cap, investment plan or financial forecast. General programme terms may be available separately on the company’s investor-relations site; this weekly notice details trades on the specified dates. It contains no transactions after 5 October, so the reported amounts should not be carried forward to a later week.

The number of shares and the cash value are separate measures. ASML reports daily share counts, weighted average prices and the corresponding euro value in distinct columns. The notice does not say that every repurchased share was acquired at one identical price. Calculating a separate weekly average price from rounded daily figures would not replace the company’s own transaction data. This account therefore reports the five official daily entries and gives only the total share count and the clearly identified arithmetic sum of the disclosed daily values.