Deutsche Telekom's Dual Confidence Play: Board Member Buys Shares as €2B Buyback Accelerates
Published on 07/07/2026 at 07:25 | Redaktion boerse-global.de
A member of Deutsche Telekom's management board stepped in to buy stock just as the shares touched a 52-week low, adding a personal vote of confidence to the company's already hefty buyback programme. Rodrigo Francisco Diehl purchased 3,000 shares across two sessions in late June, spending a total of roughly €73,000. On 29 June he paid €24.64 a share, and the following day he picked up more at €24.15 – the same session that marked the stock's one-year trough of €23.54.
The insider transaction coincided with the latest tranche of Deutsche Telekom's corporate repurchase effort. Between 29 and 30 June alone, the group bought back 727,344 of its own shares via Xetra at an average price of €24.79, for a total outlay of around €18 million. That brings the cumulative number of shares retired since the programme began on 5 January 2026 to 19.3 million. A third buyback tranche, worth up to €560 million, kicked off on 1 July, and management plans to exhaust the full €2 billion authorisation by the end of the year. The repurchased stock will be cancelled, boosting earnings per share by reducing the float.
On the operational side, Deutsche Telekom is stepping in where a rival pulled back. The group is now building fibre-optic connections for roughly 2,000 households and businesses in the town of Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde, a project it will finance entirely on its own balance sheet. The work had originally been planned by joint venture "Unsere Grüne Glasfaser", which halted the expansion earlier this spring. Construction is due to begin by October. The company also notched a top spot in a nationwide fixed-network test, earning an overall score of 1.22 – the best among all providers.
Should investors sell immediately? Or is it worth buying Deutsche Telekom?
Analyst sentiment has taken a turn for the better, particularly regarding T?Mobile US, Deutsche Telekom's American subsidiary. Bank of America lifted its rating on the unit to "Buy", arguing that worries about competition from satellite networks have been overstated. UBS echoed that view, saying market fears that Deutsche Telekom might need to finance an expensive full takeover of T?Mobile US are overblown, and pointing instead to the parent company's underlying operational strength.
The stock has bounced from its low. In recent sessions it closed at €25.57, representing a weekly gain of 7.21%, while an earlier Monday close of €25.49 still left it up roughly 7% on the week. Even so, the shares remain deep in the red on longer timeframes: year?to?date losses stand between 8.25% and 8.54% depending on the session, and the 12?month decline is 17.85%. From the February high of €34.35, the stock is still off about 26%.
Technically, the recovery has yet to break key resistance levels. The shares continue to trade below their 50?day moving average of €27.49 and the 200?day average of €28.76. With a relative strength index of 40, there is no sign of overbought conditions, leaving room for further upside if buying momentum persists. The combination of insider buying, a large corporate repurchase, and improving analyst views has helped stabilise sentiment, but closing the gap to those moving averages will require sustained operational progress in core markets – including the expanding media business around MagentaTV.
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