Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Walmart share buybacks

$8.1B+80.0% · FY2025

Walmart (WMT) reported $8.1B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +80.0% year on year.

$6.3B2011$7.6B2012$6.7B2013$1.0B2014$4.1B2015$8.3B2016$8.3B2017$7.4B2018$5.7B2019$2.6B2020$9.8B2021$9.9B2022$2.8B2023$4.5B2024$8.1B2025
Walmart — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252026-01-31$8.1B+80.0%Open →
FY20242025-01-31$4.5B+61.7%Open →
FY20232024-01-31$2.8B−72.0%Open →
FY20222023-01-31$9.9B+1.4%Open →
FY20212022-01-31$9.8B+272.8%Open →
FY20202021-01-31$2.6B−54.1%Open →
FY20192020-01-31$5.7B−22.8%Open →
FY20182019-01-31$7.4B−10.7%Open →
FY20172018-01-31$8.3B−0.0%Open →
FY20162017-01-31$8.3B+101.8%Open →
FY20152016-01-31$4.1B+305.1%Open →
FY20142015-01-31$1.0B−84.8%Open →
FY20132014-01-31$6.7B−12.1%Open →
FY20122013-01-31$7.6B+20.7%Open →
FY20112012-01-31$6.3B—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 +1.8%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Walmart share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/walmart/share-buybacks}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0000104169-26-000055 · March 13, 2026

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