Ryder System (R) Approves 2M Share Common Stock Buyback Plan

Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a new share repurchase program to mitigate the dilutive impact of shares issued under the Company's employee stock plans. The Company expects to begin purchasing shares under the program during the second half of 2016. The new program replaces the Company’s previous anti-dilutive program, which expired in December 2015.

Under the new anti-dilutive program, Ryder management is authorized to repurchase up to two million shares of common stock in an amount not to exceed 1.5 million shares issued to employees under the Company’s employee stock plans from December 1, 2015 through December 9, 2017, plus 0.5 million shares issued previously to employees that were not repurchased under the expired 2013 share repurchase program. Share repurchases will be made periodically in open-market transactions using the Company's working capital, and are subject to market conditions, legal requirements and other factors. In addition, management has been granted the authority to establish a trading plan under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as part of the repurchase program. As of December 31, 2015, the Company had 53.5 million shares of common stock outstanding.

Robert Sanchez, Ryder’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “At the beginning of 2015, we temporarily ceased repurchasing shares under our anti-dilutive repurchase program to manage our leverage and allow us to maintain near-term balance sheet flexibility. Based on our current and expected leverage, we anticipate resuming share repurchases during the second half of 2016 to address the dilutive impact of shares issued under the Company’s employee stock plans.”

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