TikTok owner ByteDance to buy back shares after amassing $50bn cash pile
坐拥500亿美元现金，字节跳动将回购股份
Ecommerce growth drives revenues to record level and pushes quarterly earnings before interest and tax to $9bn
电商业务的增长推动其季度营收达到创纪录水平，息税前利润达到90亿美元。该公司计划从投资者手中回购至多50亿美元的股份。
ByteDance is tapping a cash pile of more than $50bn accumulated from its popular short-video apps to buy back up to $5bn worth of shares from investors.The owner of the viral apps TikTok and Chinese version Douyin raked in $29bn in revenues in the three months to June, up about 40 per cent from the previous year, according to four people briefed on the figures. Earnings before interest and tax, ByteDance’s preferred metric of profitability, were $9bn.
字节跳动(ByteDance)将利用其广受欢迎的短视频应用产生的逾500亿美元现金储备，从投资者手中回购至多50亿美元的股份。
By mid-year, the start-up had $51bn worth of cash on its balance sheet, $7bn of which is restricted and not available for immediate business use. Total debt stood at $12bn, according to people briefed on the numbers.
四名听取过相关数据简报的人士表示，在截至6月份的三个月，旗下拥有热门应用TikTok及其中国版抖音(Douyin)的字节跳动获得了290亿美元收入，同比增长约40%。息税前利润——字节跳动偏好的盈利指标——达到90亿美元。
The Chinese social media company, backed by General Atlantic and SoftBank, aims to purchase shares from investors at an approximate $260bn valuation, according to three people familiar with the matter. Last summer, it was valued at about $300bn when it conducted a share buyback from its employees.
到今年年中，这家初创公司的资产负债表上有价值510亿美元的现金，其中70亿美元是受限的，不能立即用于商业用途。债务总额为120亿美元，听取过相关数据简报的人士表示。
