Buyback yield (TTM)
0.02%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
0.02%
5Y share count change
161.9%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$56.99M
Cumulative buybacks
$161.87M
Key takeaways
- Palantir (PLTR) repurchased about $56.99M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 161.9% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 0.08× — repurchases only partially offset SBC dilution.
- Cash buyback spend has compounded at +81.8% per year over the latest 5-year window.
- TTM repurchases used about 2% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Palantir (PLTR)
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 Palantir (PLTR)
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 Palantir (PLTR)
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 Palantir (PLTR)
Latest: $74.98M
Overview
In 2025, Palantir (PLTR) buyback spend totalled $74.98M – grew 16.8% year-over-year.
Over 2020–2025 (5 years), Palantir buyback spend expanded at a +81.8% compound annual rate, sustaining 2 straight years of year-over-year growth.
2025 marks the peak buyback spend at $74.98M, with the historical low of $0.00 recorded in 2021.
Palantir Buyback Spend 2025: $74.98M
Palantir posted buyback spend of $74.98M in 2025, grew 16.8% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Palantir Buyback Spend 2024: $64.20M
Palantir buyback spend in 2024 was $64.20M.
Palantir Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Palantir buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Palantir Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Palantir buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Palantir Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Palantir buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Palantir (PLTR).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $74.98M | $684.03M | −$609.05M | 0.02% | 2.57B | +4.7% | |
| 2024 | $64.20M | $691.64M | −$627.44M | 0.04% | 2.45B | +6.7% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $475.90M | −$475.90M | — | 2.30B | +11.3% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $564.80M | −$564.80M | — | 2.06B | +7.3% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $778.22M | −$778.22M | — | 1.92B | +96.4% | |
| 2020 | $3.78M | $1.27B | −$1.27B | 0.01% | 0.98B | +36.8% | |
| 2019 | $11.20M | $241.97M | −$230.77M | 0.13% | 0.72B | 0.0% | |
| 2018 | $7.71M | $248.50M | −$240.80M | — | 0.72B | — |
- 2025$74.98M
- 2024$64.20M
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$3.78M
- 2019$11.20M
- 2018$7.71M
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Palantir (PLTR)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 0.08×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Palantir (PLTR)
How Palantir splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Palantir, 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 $2.69B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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