Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Cognex share buybacks

$151M+125.4% · FY2025

Cognex (CGNX) reported $151M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +125.4% year on year.

$10.0M2011$02012$47.9M2013$59.7M2014$126M2015$47.1M2016$124M2017$204M2018$61.7M2019$51.0M2020$162M2021$204M2022$79.8M2023$67.1M2024$151M2025
Cognex — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$151M+125.4%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$67.1M−15.9%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$79.8M−60.9%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$204M+26.4%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$162M+216.7%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$51.0M−17.3%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$61.7M−69.7%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$204M+64.8%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$124M+162.4%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$47.1M−62.7%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$126M+111.7%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$59.7M+24.6%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$47.9M+$47.9MOpen →
FY20122012-12-31$0−100.0%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$10.0M—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 +21.4%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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

BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-cognex-share-buybacks-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Cognex share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/cognex/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 · 0000851205-26-000012 · February 12, 2026

{{cite web |title=Cognex share buybacks — 10-K (0000851205-26-000012) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/851205/000085120526000012/cgnx-20251231.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-02-12}}

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