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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-000766"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFES"
cik: "0000086115"
company_name: "SAFEGUARD SCIENTIFICS INC"
filed_at: "2023-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T17:21:57.256844+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Safeguard completes $3M share repurchase program; reports $19.3M cash at year-end

## Summary
- Repurchased 736,577 shares at avg $4.09/share under $3M plan announced March 2022.
- In 2022, repurchased 711,481 shares for $2.9M at avg $4.13; balance bought in Jan 2023.
- Cash, equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities: $19.3M as of Dec 31, 2022.
- Full-year 2022 deployments totaled $5.7M, within prior guidance of $5M-$9M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-000766
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFES
- cik: 0000086115
- company_name: SAFEGUARD SCIENTIFICS INC
- filed_at: 2023-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/86115/000143774923000766/0001437749-23-000766-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/86115/000143774923000766/sfe20230109_8k.htm

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