Share buybacks · 2021–2025

AstraZeneca share buybacks

$521M+543.2% · FY2025

AstraZeneca (AZN) reported $521M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +543.2% year on year.

$149M2021$81.0M2024$521M2025
AstraZeneca — Share buybacks, 2021–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$521M+543.2%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$81.0M−45.6%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$149M—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 · 2021–2025 compound annual growth +36.7%

Figures are reported under IFRS, in US dollars.

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{AstraZeneca share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
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  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: 20-F · 0001104659-26-019130 · February 24, 2026

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