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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001097149-24-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALGN"
cik: "0001097149"
company_name: "ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC"
filed_at: "2024-10-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T09:57:25.968021+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Align Technology plans $275M open market stock repurchase under existing $1B program

## Summary
- Repurchase of $275M of common stock via open market under Board-approved $1.0B program from Jan 2023.
- Expected completion by end of January 2025; funded with cash on hand.
- As of Sept 30, 2024, Align had 74.8M shares outstanding and $1,041.9M cash.
- Repurchases will be executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001097149-24-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALGN
- cik: 0001097149
- company_name: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
- filed_at: 2024-10-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714924000056/0001097149-24-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714924000056/algn-20241024.htm

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