** U.S.-listed shares of online education firm TAL Education Group up ~7% at $13.13 premarket
** Tal's Q4 results beat estimates and co extends its existing share buyback plan
** Expects to repurchase about $503.9 mln shares in the next 12 months that it aims to fund out of its existing cash balance
** Other Chinese education stocks rise: Gaotu Techedu
up 3.3%, New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc
adds 3.1%
** TAL shares down 3% YTD compared to 78% surge in GOTU and 5.2% rise in EDU
(Reporting by Medha Singh)
((medha.singh@thomsonreuters.com))
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