Buyback yield (TTM)
3.20%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
5.39%
5Y share count change
-9.4%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$956.00M
Cumulative buybacks
$4.19B
Key takeaways
- Otis Worldwide (OTIS) repurchased about $956.00M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is down 9.4% over the last ~5 fiscal years — buybacks are net-shrinking the share base.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 26.56× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 94% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Otis Worldwide (OTIS)
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 Otis Worldwide (OTIS)
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 Otis Worldwide (OTIS)
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 Otis Worldwide (OTIS)
Latest: $809.00M
Overview
2025's annual buyback spend for Otis Worldwide (OTIS) came in at $809.00M – declined 19.7% year-over-year.
Otis Worldwide buyback spend peaked at $1.01B in 2024; the latest annual figure is $809.00M in 2025 (19.7% below peak).
The highest annual buyback spend of $1.01B was reported in 2024. The lowest in the available history was $0.00 in 2017.
Otis Worldwide Buyback Spend 2025: $809.00M
2025's buyback spend for Otis Worldwide came in at $809.00M, declined 19.7% below 2024.
Otis Worldwide Buyback Spend 2024: $1.01B
Otis Worldwide posted buyback spend of $1.01B in 2024, grew 25.9% from 2023. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Otis Worldwide Buyback Spend 2023: $800.00M
In 2023, Otis Worldwide reported buyback spend of $800.00M, declined 5.9% below 2022.
Otis Worldwide Buyback Spend 2022: $850.00M
Otis Worldwide buyback spend in 2022 was $850.00M, grew 17.2% from 2021.
Otis Worldwide Buyback Spend 2021: $725.00M
Otis Worldwide buyback spend in 2021 was $725.00M.
See more financial history for Otis Worldwide (OTIS).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $809.00M | $80.00M | $729.00M | 2.35% | 0.39B | -2.6% | |
| 2024 | $1.01B | $0.00 | $1.01B | 2.73% | 0.40B | -2.5% | |
| 2023 | $800.00M | $0.00 | $800.00M | 2.19% | 0.41B | -2.0% | |
| 2022 | $850.00M | $0.00 | $850.00M | 2.61% | 0.42B | -1.9% | |
| 2021 | $725.00M | $0.00 | $725.00M | 1.96% | 0.43B | -0.7% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.43B | +0.3% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.43B | +0.0% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.43B | -0.8% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.44B | — |
- 2025$809.00M
- 2024$1.01B
- 2023$800.00M
- 2022$850.00M
- 2021$725.00M
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$0.00
- 2017$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Otis Worldwide (OTIS)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 26.56×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Otis Worldwide (OTIS)
How Otis Worldwide splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Otis Worldwide, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $7.55B | |
| $5.19B | |
| $2.68B | |
| $1.86B | |
| $1.14B | |
| $1.13B | |
| $50.00M | |
| $0.00 |
- $7.55B
- $5.19B
- $2.68B
- $1.86B
- $1.14B
- $1.13B
- $50.00M
- $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 $1.01B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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