Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Mastercard share buybacks

$11.7B+7.1% · FY2025

Mastercard (MA) reported $11.7B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +7.1% year on year.

$1.1B2011$1.7B2012$2.4B2013$3.4B2014$3.5B2015$3.5B2016$3.8B2017$4.9B2018$6.5B2019$4.5B2020$5.9B2021$8.8B2022$9.0B2023$11.0B2024$11.7B2025
Mastercard — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$11.7B+7.1%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$11.0B+21.3%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$9.0B+3.2%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$8.8B+48.3%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$5.9B+32.0%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$4.5B−31.2%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$6.5B+31.7%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$4.9B+31.1%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$3.8B+7.1%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$3.5B−0.2%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$3.5B+3.9%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$3.4B+38.6%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$2.4B+39.8%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$1.7B+52.3%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$1.1B—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 +18.1%

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Ready-made references for the figures on this page, as published on September 25, 2026.

Wikipedia

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APA 7

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

BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Mastercard share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/mastercard/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 · 0001141391-26-000013 · February 11, 2026

{{cite web |title=Mastercard share buybacks — 10-K (0001141391-26-000013) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1141391/000114139126000013/ma-20251231.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-02-11}}

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