Share buybacks · 2016–2025

Dave & Buster's Entertainment share buybacks

$23.9M−86.1% · FY2025

Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) reported $23.9M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −86.1% year on year.

$28.8M2016$152M2017$149M2018$297M2019$02020$02021$25.0M2022$300M2023$172M2024$23.9M2025
Dave & Buster's Entertainment — Share buybacks, 2016–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252026-02-03$23.9M−86.1%Open →
FY20242025-02-04$172M−42.7%Open →
FY20232024-02-04$300M+1,100.0%Open →
FY20222023-01-29$25.0M+$25.0MOpen →
FY20212022-01-30$0$0Open →
FY20202021-01-31$0−100.0%Open →
FY20192020-02-02$297M+99.4%Open →
FY20182019-02-03$149M−1.8%Open →
FY20172018-02-04$152M+427.0%Open →
FY20162017-01-29$28.8M—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 · 2016–2025 compound annual growth −2.1%

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Wikipedia

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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001525769-26-000008 · March 31, 2026

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