Share buybacks · 2015–2025

Novo Nordisk A S share buybacks

$210M−92.8% · FY2025

Novo Nordisk A S (NVO) reported $210M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −92.8% year on year.

$2.6B2015$2.2B2016$2.6B2017$2.5B2018$2.3B2019$2.6B2020$3.1B2021$3.4B2022$4.3B2023$2.9B2024$210M2025
Novo Nordisk A S — Share buybacks, 2015–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$210M−92.8%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$2.9B−32.6%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$4.3B+27.4%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$3.4B+10.2%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$3.1B+19.7%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$2.6B+12.3%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$2.3B−6.8%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$2.5B−3.6%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$2.6B+14.3%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$2.2B−12.5%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$2.6B—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 · 2015–2025 compound annual growth −22.1%

Figures are reported under IFRS in DKK and converted to US dollars at ECB reference rates — fiscal 2025 average 6.605 DKK/$ for income items, year-end 6.357 DKK/$ for balance-sheet items.

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Wikipedia

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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 20-F · 0000353278-26-000012 · February 4, 2026

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