Buyback yield (TTM)
0.53%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
0.53%
5Y share count change
34.6%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$24.33M
Cumulative buybacks
$8.37M
Key takeaways
- Duolingo (DUOL) repurchased about $24.33M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 34.6% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 0.17× — repurchases only partially offset SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 6% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Duolingo (DUOL)
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 Duolingo (DUOL)
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 Duolingo (DUOL)
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 Duolingo (DUOL)
Latest: $0.00
Overview
In 2025, Duolingo (DUOL) buyback spend totalled $0.00.
Duolingo buyback spend peaked at $8.20M in 2021; the latest annual figure is $0.00 in 2025 (100.0% below peak).
Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $8.20M in 2021 and its low of $0.00 in 2020.
Duolingo Buyback Spend 2025: $0.00
Duolingo buyback spend in 2025 was $0.00.
Duolingo Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00
Duolingo buyback spend in 2024 was $0.00.
Duolingo Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Duolingo buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Duolingo Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
In 2022, Duolingo reported buyback spend of $0.00, plunged 100.0% below 2021.
Duolingo Buyback Spend 2021: $8.20M
Duolingo buyback spend in 2021 was $8.20M.
See more financial history for Duolingo (DUOL).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $0.00 | $137.44M | −$137.44M | — | 0.05B | +2.6% | |
| 2024 | $0.00 | $110.48M | −$110.48M | — | 0.05B | +1.2% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $95.22M | −$95.22M | — | 0.05B | +17.9% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $73.82M | −$73.82M | — | 0.04B | +3.1% | |
| 2021 | $8.20M | $40.80M | −$32.60M | 0.20% | 0.04B | +6.6% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $17.03M | −$17.03M | — | 0.04B | 0.0% | |
| 2019 | $168.00K | $3.73M | −$3.56M | 0.00% | 0.04B | — |
- 2025$0.00
- 2024$0.00
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$8.20M
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$168.00K
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Duolingo (DUOL)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 0.17×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Duolingo (DUOL)
How Duolingo splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Duolingo, 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 $416.04M (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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