Buyback yield (TTM)
1.87%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
2.72%
5Y share count change
-10.4%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$1.05B
Cumulative buybacks
$6.00B
Key takeaways
- Corteva (CTVA) repurchased about $1.05B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is down 10.4% over the last ~5 fiscal years — buybacks are net-shrinking the share base.
- Cash buyback spend has compounded at +31.2% per year over the latest 5-year window.
- TTM repurchases used about 67% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Corteva (CTVA)
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 Corteva (CTVA)
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 Corteva (CTVA)
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 Corteva (CTVA)
Latest: $1.07B
Overview
In 2025, Corteva (CTVA) buyback spend totalled $1.07B – grew 6.1% year-over-year.
Over 2020–2025 (5 years), Corteva buyback spend expanded at a +31.2% compound annual rate, sustaining 2 straight years of year-over-year growth.
$1.07B stands as the all-time-high annual buyback spend, posted in 2025, against a low of $0.00 during 2017.
Corteva Buyback Spend 2025: $1.07B
In 2025, Corteva reported buyback spend of $1.07B, grew 6.1% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Corteva Buyback Spend 2024: $1.01B
Corteva buyback spend in 2024 was $1.01B, surged 33.5% from 2023.
Corteva Buyback Spend 2023: $756.00M
2023's buyback spend for Corteva came in at $756.00M, declined 24.4% below 2022.
Corteva Buyback Spend 2022: $1.00B
Corteva posted buyback spend of $1.00B in 2022, grew 5.3% from 2021.
Corteva Buyback Spend 2021: $950.00M
Corteva buyback spend in 2021 was $950.00M.
See more financial history for Corteva (CTVA).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $1.07B | $0.00 | $1.07B | 2.37% | 0.67B | -3.3% | |
| 2024 | $1.01B | $0.00 | $1.01B | 2.58% | 0.70B | -2.2% | |
| 2023 | $756.00M | $0.00 | $756.00M | 2.24% | 0.71B | -1.7% | |
| 2022 | $1.00B | $55.00M | $945.00M | 2.38% | 0.72B | -2.3% | |
| 2021 | $950.00M | $0.00 | $950.00M | 2.76% | 0.74B | -1.3% | |
| 2020 | $275.00M | $0.00 | $275.00M | 0.95% | 0.75B | +0.2% | |
| 2019 | $25.00M | $84.00M | −$59.00M | 0.11% | 0.75B | +0.0% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.75B | 0.0% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.75B | 0.0% | |
| 2016 | $916.00M | $0.00 | $916.00M | — | 0.75B | — |
- 2025$1.07B
- 2024$1.01B
- 2023$756.00M
- 2022$1.00B
- 2021$950.00M
- 2020$275.00M
- 2019$25.00M
- 2018$0.00
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$916.00M
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Corteva (CTVA)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: N/A.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Corteva (CTVA)
How Corteva splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Corteva, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $4.60B | |
| $2.30B | |
| $1.66B | |
| $1.18B | |
| $783.80M | |
| $682.89M | |
| $107.00M | |
| $0.00 |
- $4.60B
- $2.30B
- $1.66B
- $1.18B
- $783.80M
- $682.89M
- $107.00M
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 $1.57B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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