Share buybacks · 2015–2025

WPP share buybacks

$128M+22.0% · FY2025

WPP (WPP) reported $128M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +22.0% year on year.

$898M2015$577M2016$650M2017$276M2018$55.9M2019$373M2020$1.1B2021$1.1B2022$67.1M2023$105M2024$128M2025
WPP — Share buybacks, 2015–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$128M+22.0%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$105M+56.2%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$67.1M−93.7%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.1B−5.5%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$1.1B+202.3%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$373M+566.9%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$55.9M−79.8%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$276M−57.5%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$650M+12.5%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$577M−35.7%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$898M—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 −17.7%

Figures are reported under IFRS in GBP and converted to US dollars at ECB reference rates — fiscal 2025 average 0.758 GBP/$ for income items, year-end 0.743 GBP/$ for balance-sheet items.

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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

BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{WPP share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/wpp/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: 20-F · 0001628280-26-019643 · March 19, 2026

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