Ripple’s Buyback Boosts Its Valuation, Not Its Holders

XRP News: Ripple’s Buyback Boosts Its Valuation, Not Its Holders

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In XRP news today, Ripple has agreed to buy back $750M in shares from employees and early investors, a deal that values the privately held company at roughly $50Bn, up from about $40Bn in November 2025.

That makes Ripple worth nearly twice as much as stablecoin issuer Circle, even as the XRP token trades roughly 60% below its record high from last summer

The gap between a soaring corporate valuation and a battered token price is not a contradiction; it is the story. Here is the tension this article works through: Ripple’s balance sheet is thriving, but a larger Ripple share buyback and a higher Ripple valuation do not give XRP investors any equity, cash-flow rights, or a guaranteed price floor.

XRP News: Why Ripple’s Business Looks Stronger Than its Token

Ripple isn’t just a company that happens to have created XRP anymore. Following the resolution of its long-running case with the US SEC in 2025, the firm embarked on an acquisition spree that reshaped it into a diversified financial holding company.

“They’re clearly in a better position than Circle,” Gregoire le Jeune, CEO of stablecoin startup Darika Labs, told DL News. “They have a large treasury and a crazy capacity today but need to be perceived as very cheap versus Tether.”

Ripple spent roughly $2.5Bn last year buying up the prime brokerage firm Hidden Road, the stablecoin infrastructure company Rail, the treasury management platform GTreasury, and the crypto custody provider Palisade, all now folded under the Ripple Prime banner.

It has also picked up two Australian firms this year, part of what Fiona Murray, managing director of Ripple’s Asia Pacific business, called a “key market,” and now holds more than 75 licenses and registrations worldwide.

That enterprise push into cross-border payments is exactly why the company’s payments and adoption footprint matters more to its valuation than XRP’s spot price does. “If you’re building a fintech company in 2026, the likelihood of you doing business with Ripple is very, very high,” Le Jeune said.

The Revenue Question Nobody Can Answer

Buying out nearly $1Bn in shares in under a year signals confidence, but Ripple discloses no public financial statements, leaving analysts guessing at the real numbers behind the Ripple valuation.

“An easier proxy for valuation is gross revenue at the very least, which is a metric we can’t find for now to understand the nuances around Ripple valuation,” Eliézer Ndinga, global head of research and founding venture partner at 21shares, said.

Source: finance.yahoo.com