>>107196099Dividends, not buybacks. They need to have a certain percentage of shares available for purchase in order to remain listed on the stock exchange, and doing one more buyback as big as their most recent one (June 2024) would drop their public shares percentage below the required minimum.
So they started using dividends to increase shareholder value (read: giving the shareholders free money)
And I'm totally sure that this increase in shareholder value will trickle down to the livers any day now. Yep, aaaaaaaaaaaany day now.