Buyback yield (TTM)
0.41%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
0.42%
5Y share count change
1.9%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$134.00M
Cumulative buybacks
$432.00M
Key takeaways
- Kenvue (KVUE) repurchased about $134.00M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 1.9% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 1.11× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 7% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Kenvue (KVUE)
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 Kenvue (KVUE)
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 Kenvue (KVUE)
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 Kenvue (KVUE)
Latest: $197.00M
Overview
Kenvue (KVUE) most recent annual buyback spend stands at $197.00M (2025) – declined 16.2% year-over-year.
Kenvue buyback spend peaked at $235.00M in 2024; the latest annual figure is $197.00M in 2025 (16.2% below peak).
The record annual buyback spend stands at $235.00M, reached in 2024; the historical low of $0.00 was recorded in 2019.
Kenvue Buyback Spend 2025: $197.00M
In 2025, Kenvue reported buyback spend of $197.00M, declined 16.2% below 2024.
Kenvue Buyback Spend 2024: $235.00M
Kenvue buyback spend in 2024 was $235.00M.
Kenvue Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Kenvue buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Kenvue Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Kenvue buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Kenvue Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Kenvue buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Kenvue (KVUE).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $197.00M | $136.00M | $61.00M | 0.60% | 1.92B | +0.1% | |
| 2024 | $235.00M | $254.00M | −$19.00M | 0.53% | 1.92B | +0.4% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $188.00M | −$188.00M | — | 1.92B | +0.0% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $137.00M | −$137.00M | — | 1.91B | +1.4% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $141.00M | −$141.00M | — | 1.89B | +0.0% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $115.00M | −$115.00M | — | 1.89B | -0.0% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $102.00M | −$102.00M | — | 1.89B | — |
- 2025$197.00M
- 2024$235.00M
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Kenvue (KVUE)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 1.11×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Kenvue (KVUE)
How Kenvue splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Kenvue, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $8.09B | |
| $6.50B | |
| $1.00B | |
| $1.00B | |
| $903.00M | |
| $746.00M | |
| $103.65M | |
| $0.00 |
- $8.09B
- $6.50B
- $1.00B
- $1.00B
- $903.00M
- $746.00M
- $103.65M
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 $1.82B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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