Facebook is doing a $6 billion stock buyback
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Facebook is buying back $6 billion of its stock from shareholders, the company announced in a SEC filing on Friday. The repurchase program will begin in the first quarter of 2017, per the filing.
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Facebook also announced that its chief accounting officer, Jas Athwal, is retiring in a separate filing.
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