Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Nasdaq share buybacks

$616M+324.8% · FY2025

Nasdaq (NDAQ) reported $616M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +324.8% year on year.

$100M2011$275M2012$10.0M2013$178M2014$377M2015$100M2016$203M2017$394M2018$200M2019$222M2020$468M2021$308M2022$269M2023$145M2024$616M2025
Nasdaq — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$616M+324.8%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$145M−46.1%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$269M−12.7%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$308M−34.2%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$468M+110.8%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$222M+11.0%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$200M−49.2%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$394M+94.1%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$203M+103.0%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$100M−73.5%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$377M+111.8%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$178M+1,680.0%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$10.0M−96.4%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$275M+175.0%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$100M—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 +13.9%

Share buybacks at companies of similar size

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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

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Nasdaq share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/nasdaq/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 · 0001628280-26-007703 · February 12, 2026

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