Which companies spend the most buying back their own stock?
Apple spent $90.7 billion buying back its own shares in its latest fiscal year, about 2 times as much as Alphabet ($45.7 billion), with Nvidia next ($40.1 billion). A buyback returns cash to shareholders and leaves fewer shares, so each remaining share owns more of the company. Together the 50 companies shown spent about $590 billion in their latest fiscal years, as reported in their cash flow statements. Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust's figure is shares its investors asked to sell back, not a buyback on the market.
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- Apple has the highest figure, $90.7B, followed by Alphabet ($45.7B) and Nvidia ($40.1B).
- Honeywell International has the lowest figure, $3.8B, followed by LAM Research ($3.85B) and Capital One Financial ($4.1B).
- The highest is 24 times the lowest.
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| Company | Stock bought back in the fiscal year, dollars | Reported in |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 90,711,000,000 | Filing |
| Alphabet | 45,709,000,000 | Filing |
| Nvidia | 40,086,000,000 | Filing |
| JPMorgan Chase | 31,591,000,000 | Filing |
| Meta Platforms | 26,248,000,000 | Filing |
| Bank of America | 21,433,000,000 | Filing |
| Exxon Mobil | 20,273,000,000 | Filing |
| Microsoft | 18,420,000,000 | Filing |
| Visa | 18,316,000,000 | Filing |
| Citigroup | 13,250,000,000 | Filing |
| Salesforce | 12,596,000,000 | Filing |
| Chevron | 12,079,000,000 | Filing |
| Mastercard | 11,727,000,000 | Filing |
| Adobe | 11,281,000,000 | Filing |
| HCA Healthcare | 10,067,000,000 | Filing |
| T-Mobile US | 9,974,000,000 | Filing |
| Netflix | 9,127,167,000 | Filing |
| Qualcomm | 8,791,000,000 | Filing |
| Walmart | 8,088,000,000 | Filing |
| General Electric | 7,551,000,000 | Filing |
| Charles Schwab | 7,346,000,000 | Filing |
| Comcast | 7,155,000,000 | Filing |
| Uber Technologies | 6,523,000,000 | Filing |
| Procter & Gamble | 6,500,000,000 | Filing |
| Booking Holdings | 6,440,000,000 | Filing |
| Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust | 6,132,773,000 | Filing |
| PayPal Holdings | 6,052,000,000 | Filing |
| Dell Technologies | 6,014,000,000 | Filing |
| General Motors | 6,012,000,000 | Filing |
| Cisco Systems | 6,000,000,000 | Filing |
| Johnson Controls International | 5,991,000,000 | Filing |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5,953,000,000 | Filing |
| American International Group | 5,836,000,000 | Filing |
| American Express | 5,814,000,000 | Filing |
| UnitedHealth Group | 5,545,000,000 | Filing |
| Caterpillar | 5,190,000,000 | Filing |
| Charter Communications | 5,132,000,000 | Filing |
| Merck | 5,084,000,000 | Filing |
| ConocoPhillips | 5,018,000,000 | Filing |
| S&P Global | 5,001,000,000 | Filing |
| Applied Materials | 4,895,000,000 | Filing |
| McKesson | 4,750,000,000 | Filing |
| Accenture | 4,619,497,000 | Filing |
| Linde | 4,601,000,000 | Filing |
| AT&T | 4,500,000,000 | Filing |
| D.R. Horton | 4,300,000,000 | Filing |
| Eli Lilly | 4,108,000,000 | Filing |
| Capital One Financial | 4,099,000,000 | Filing |
| LAM Research | 3,851,343,000 | Filing |
| Honeywell International | 3,804,000,000 | Filing |
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