Buyback yield (TTM)
0.72%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
0.72%
5Y share count change
192.7%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$37.99M
Cumulative buybacks
$37.79M
Key takeaways
- D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) repurchased about $37.99M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 192.7% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 1.42× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
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 D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
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 D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
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 D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
Latest: $37.79M
Overview
The 2025 reading of D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) buyback spend is $37.79M.
The highest annual buyback spend of $37.79M was reported in 2025. The lowest in the available history was $0.00 in 2020.
D-Wave Quantum Buyback Spend 2025: $37.79M
D-Wave Quantum buyback spend in 2025 was $37.79M.
D-Wave Quantum Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00
D-Wave Quantum buyback spend in 2024 was $0.00.
D-Wave Quantum Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
D-Wave Quantum buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
D-Wave Quantum Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
D-Wave Quantum buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
D-Wave Quantum Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
D-Wave Quantum buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for D-Wave Quantum (QBTS).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $37.79M | $22.66M | $15.13M | 0.41% | 0.32B | +67.2% | |
| 2024 | $0.00 | $15.66M | −$15.66M | — | 0.19B | +39.2% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $21.92M | −$21.92M | — | 0.14B | +15.3% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $9.16M | −$9.16M | — | 0.12B | -4.5% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $1.74M | −$1.74M | — | 0.13B | +14.2% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $2.99M | −$2.99M | — | 0.11B | — |
- 2025$37.79M
- 2024$0.00
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 1.42×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
How D-Wave Quantum splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as D-Wave Quantum, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
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| $40.09B | |
| $18.42B | |
| $6.65B | |
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| $1.32B | |
| $0.00 | |
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- $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 $0.00 (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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