Shares in Vestas jumped after the board of directors of Danish wind turbine maker Vestas has decided to start a share buy-back programme of up to DKr1.5bn ($227.9m) to be executed from August 15 to December 28, 2018.

Shares rose 3.62% to DKr409.30 at 11.05 CET on the Copenhagen stock exchange, also helped by second quarter 2018 results published today that showed a record order intake.