Buyback yield (TTM)
2.61%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
2.61%
5Y share count change
394.8%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$855.46M
Cumulative buybacks
$6.10M
Key takeaways
- AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) repurchased about $855.46M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 394.8% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 9.00× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
Stacked annual yields — buyback yield (TTM cash repurchases ÷ market cap) plus dividend yield from the same fiscal-year-end key-metrics period — show how total cash return per dollar of equity has evolved.
Diluted vs basic shares (annual) for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
Diluted weighted-average shares are the EPS denominator — a falling count means buybacks are outpacing SBC dilution.
Year-over-year change in diluted shares for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
Green is fewer shares vs the prior fiscal year (net repurchase); red is growth (dilution). The earliest year shown has no prior year to compare.
Cash buyback spend over time for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
Latest: $0.00
Overview
The 2025 reading of AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) buyback spend is $0.00.
AST SpaceMobile buyback spend plunged from $6.10M in 2019 to $0.00 in 2025, a 100.0% drawdown.
The highest annual buyback spend of $6.10M was reported in 2019. The lowest in the available history was $0.00 in 2018.
AST SpaceMobile Buyback Spend 2025: $0.00
AST SpaceMobile buyback spend in 2025 was $0.00.
AST SpaceMobile Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00
AST SpaceMobile buyback spend in 2024 was $0.00.
AST SpaceMobile Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
AST SpaceMobile buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
AST SpaceMobile Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
AST SpaceMobile buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
AST SpaceMobile Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
AST SpaceMobile buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $0.00 | $47.49M | −$47.49M | — | 0.26B | +65.7% | |
| 2024 | $0.00 | $32.04M | −$32.04M | — | 0.15B | +88.8% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $13.29M | −$13.29M | — | 0.08B | +50.3% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $9.39M | −$9.39M | — | 0.05B | +5.2% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $3.74M | −$3.74M | — | 0.05B | -0.0% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $283.00K | −$283.00K | — | 0.05B | +79.9% | |
| 2019 | $6.10M | $132.00K | $5.97M | 1.58% | 0.03B | -99.9% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 25.95B | — |
- 2025$0.00
- 2024$0.00
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$6.10M
- 2018$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 9.00×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
How AST SpaceMobile splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as AST SpaceMobile, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $90.71B | |
| $40.09B | |
| $18.42B | |
| $6.65B | |
| $6.31B | |
| $1.32B | |
| $0.00 | |
| $0.00 |
- $90.71B
- $40.09B
- $18.42B
- $6.65B
- $6.31B
- $1.32B
- $0.00
Buyback capacity (TTM)
Free cash flow minus dividends paid versus actual TTM repurchases — the headroom bar shows how much of post-dividend FCF is still being deployed elsewhere.
Headroom $0.00 (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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