Buyback yield (TTM)
14.43%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
14.43%
5Y share count change
33.8%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$758.04M
Cumulative buybacks
$549.99M
Key takeaways
- Lyft (LYFT) repurchased about $758.04M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 33.8% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 3.22× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 66% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Lyft (LYFT)
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 Lyft (LYFT)
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 Lyft (LYFT)
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 Lyft (LYFT)
Latest: $499.99M
Overview
Lyft (LYFT) most recent annual buyback spend stands at $499.99M (2025) – surged 900.0% year-over-year.
2025 marks the peak buyback spend at $499.99M, with the historical low of $0.00 recorded in 2016.
Lyft Buyback Spend 2025: $499.99M
Lyft buyback spend in 2025 was $499.99M, surged 900.0% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Lyft Buyback Spend 2024: $50.00M
Lyft buyback spend in 2024 was $50.00M.
Lyft Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Lyft buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Lyft Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Lyft buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Lyft Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Lyft buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Lyft (LYFT).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $499.99M | $322.27M | $177.72M | 6.28% | 0.42B | +1.0% | |
| 2024 | $50.00M | $330.92M | −$280.92M | 0.95% | 0.41B | +7.3% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $484.53M | −$484.53M | — | 0.39B | +8.6% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $750.77M | −$750.77M | — | 0.35B | +6.0% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $724.56M | −$724.56M | — | 0.33B | +7.2% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $565.81M | −$565.81M | — | 0.31B | +37.2% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $1.60B | −$1.60B | — | 0.23B | -19.9% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $8.58M | −$8.58M | — | 0.28B | +19.4% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $9.55M | −$9.55M | — | 0.24B | 0.0% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $9.39M | −$9.39M | — | 0.24B | — |
- 2025$499.99M
- 2024$50.00M
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$0.00
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Lyft (LYFT)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 3.22×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Lyft (LYFT)
How Lyft splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Lyft, 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 $1.16B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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