Capital Allocation

What is Share Repurchases?

Cash spent buying back the company’s own shares, which shrinks the share count and lifts per-share figures.

How it is calculated

Payments for repurchase of common stock from the cash flow statement.

How to read it

Buybacks create value when shares are cheap and destroy it when they are dear. Check whether the diluted share count actually falls.

Where the numbers come from

Scrutar computes Share Repurchases from the figures each company reports to the SEC in its annual and quarterly filings, using the XBRL data attached to those filings.

More Capital Allocation metrics

Dividends PaidCash paid out to shareholders as dividends.How to read it →Stock-based CompensationThe value of shares and options granted to employees. It is a real cost paid in ownership rather than cash, so it dilutes existing holders.How to read it →AcquisitionsCash paid to buy other businesses, net of the cash acquired with them where the company reports it that way.How to read it →Debt RepaidCash used to pay down borrowings during the period.How to read it →Debt IssuedCash raised from new borrowings during the period.How to read it →Shareholder ReturnsCash handed back to shareholders through buybacks and dividends combined.How to read it →

See it for a real company

Ten years of Share Repurchases and every other metric on this page, for every company Scrutar covers, computed from SEC filings.

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