Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Aflac share buybacks

$3.5B+26.1% · FY2025

Aflac (AFL) reported $3.5B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +26.1% year on year.

$308M2011$118M2012$813M2013$1.2B2014$1.3B2015$1.4B2016$1.4B2017$1.3B2018$1.6B2019$1.5B2020$2.3B2021$2.4B2022$2.8B2023$2.8B2024$3.5B2025
Aflac — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$3.5B+26.1%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$2.8B−0.0%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$2.8B+16.7%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$2.4B+4.3%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$2.3B+49.7%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.5B−5.5%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$1.6B+25.1%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$1.3B−3.7%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$1.4B−5.0%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$1.4B+8.1%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$1.3B+8.7%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$1.2B+48.8%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$813M+589.0%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$118M−61.7%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$308M—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +19.0%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

CompaniesRanked. (September 25, 2026). Aflac share buybacks. CompaniesRanked. https://companiesranked.com/en/company/aflac/share-buybacks

BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-aflac-share-buybacks-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Aflac share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/aflac/share-buybacks}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001628280-26-011402 · February 25, 2026

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