
The buy -back of shares is reverse of issue of shares by the company to the public. It is a repurchase of outstanding shares by a firm in the market to defend from the unfriendly takeover. This paper made to an attempt to the critical comparative analysis between to the pre-buy-back of shares to the post-buy-back of shares. The paired sample test, e factor analysis applied to analyze the data. The study found that there was a significant difference between the public shareholding of pre-buy-back of shares to the public shareholding of post buy back of shares, and also came out with the there was no significant difference between the shareholding promoter of pre-buy-back to post-buy-back and also conclude that there was no significant difference between the total number of shares of pre-buy-back of shares to post-buy-back of shares. The study also came out with that there was a very strong relationship between shareholding of promoter of pre-buy-back to post-buy-back and public shareholding of pre-buy-back of shares to post—buy-back of shares. The strong relationship existed between the variable of total number of shares of pre-buy-back of shares to the post-buy-back of shares. The study finally came out with the conclusion that the only one factor was identified as a major factor.