SAP Buyback and NTT Cloud Pact Underpin JPMorgan's Bullish Reset
Published on 11/10/2026 at 12:31 | Editorial boerse-global.de
SAP disclosed the repurchase of 50,000 of its own shares on 3 November, part of its ongoing buyback programme. The aggregate volume of the transactions, which ran from 26 to 30 October inclusive, came to roughly EUR 10.6 million, according to the company's capital markets notice. The filing covers purchases already completed under the programme.
The buyback news lands alongside a busy stretch for the Walldorf-based software group. On 27 October, at SAP TechEd, the company unveiled AI extensions for Joule Work, Joule Studio and the SAP Business AI Platform. The additions include tools for orchestrating AI agents and for AI governance, plus new models for tabular data.
NTT Tie-Up Targets Sovereign Cloud
A day later, SAP and NTT announced plans to cooperate on trusted sovereign cloud and SAP Business AI. As a first step, the pair intend to connect SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site with infrastructure managed by NTT, with NTT operational services forming part of the link-up. NTT is to contribute infrastructure, integrated operations and AI expertise. Both companies were careful to frame the arrangement as a planned collaboration rather than anything already implemented.
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JPMorgan Flips to Overweight
Behind the stock sits a ratings change from JPMorgan, reported yesterday via dpa-AFX. The US bank lifted SAP from "Neutral" to "Overweight" and raised its price target to EUR 275 from EUR 175. Analyst Toby Ogg pointed to enterprise AI moving out of the pilot phase and into productive deployment, and to an expected rapid payback on those investments. Progress on SAP's own AI offering also featured among his reasons.
That upgrade provided the concrete trigger for a positive share-price reaction in the previous session. In today's trading, however, the stock has given up 1.0% to EUR 209.90.
AI Regulation Fears Weigh on the Broader Market
Wider sentiment has turned cautious. According to a Tagesschau report, Friday brought a global AI sell-off on fears that the Democrats' election success could usher in tighter AI rules and slow the build-out of data centres. The selling pressure, the report said, reached the German equity market as well.
Separately, SAP today published fixes for vulnerabilities in its products as part of its Security Patch Day.
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