Buyback yield (TTM)
N/A
Shareholder yield (TTM)
N/A
5Y share count change
16.2%
Buyback spend (TTM)
N/A
Cumulative buybacks
$767.00K
Key takeaways
- Diluted share count is up 16.2% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- Cash buyback spend has compounded at -100.0% per year over the latest 5-year window.
- TTM repurchases used about 0% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Cloudflare (NET)
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 Cloudflare (NET)
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 Cloudflare (NET)
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 Cloudflare (NET)
Latest: $0.00
Overview
2025's annual buyback spend for Cloudflare (NET) came in at $0.00.
Across 2020–2025 (5 years), Cloudflare buyback spend produced a CAGR of -100.0% – with a net decline across the window.
Between 2019 and 2025, Cloudflare buyback spend plunged 100.0%, falling from $283.00K to $0.00.
Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $283.00K in 2019 and its low of $0.00 in 2024.
Cloudflare Buyback Spend 2025: $0.00
Cloudflare buyback spend in 2025 was $0.00.
Cloudflare Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00
In 2024, Cloudflare reported buyback spend of $0.00, plunged 100.0% below 2023. This figure represents the lowest annual value in the available history.
Cloudflare Buyback Spend 2023: $34.00K
Cloudflare buyback spend in 2023 was $34.00K, surged 1033.3% from 2022.
Cloudflare Buyback Spend 2022: $3.00K
2022's buyback spend for Cloudflare came in at $3.00K, plunged 98.4% below 2021.
Cloudflare Buyback Spend 2021: $189.00K
Cloudflare buyback spend in 2021 was $189.00K.
See more financial history for Cloudflare (NET).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $0.00 | $451.45M | −$451.45M | — | 0.35B | +2.1% | |
| 2024 | $0.00 | $338.46M | −$338.46M | — | 0.34B | +2.3% | |
| 2023 | $34.00K | $273.99M | −$273.95M | 0.00% | 0.33B | +2.2% | |
| 2022 | $3.00K | $202.78M | −$202.77M | 0.00% | 0.33B | +4.5% | |
| 2021 | $189.00K | $90.14M | −$89.95M | 0.00% | 0.31B | +4.2% | |
| 2020 | $157.00K | $56.33M | −$56.18M | 0.00% | 0.30B | -0.1% | |
| 2019 | $283.00K | $36.63M | −$36.34M | 0.01% | 0.30B | +26.5% | |
| 2018 | $65.00K | $27.35M | −$27.28M | 0.00% | 0.24B | -5.5% | |
| 2017 | $16.00K | $2.75M | −$2.74M | — | 0.25B | +5.8% | |
| 2016 | $20.00K | $5.70M | −$5.68M | — | 0.24B | — |
- 2025$0.00
- 2024$0.00
- 2023$34.00K
- 2022$3.00K
- 2021$189.00K
- 2020$157.00K
- 2019$283.00K
- 2018$65.00K
- 2017$16.00K
- 2016$20.00K
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Cloudflare (NET)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 0.00×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Cloudflare (NET)
How Cloudflare splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Cloudflare, 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 $355.53M (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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