Buyback yield (TTM)
10.94%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
15.52%
5Y share count change
133.3%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$1.71B
Cumulative buybacks
$1.38B
Key takeaways
- TKO Group Holdings (TKO) repurchased about $1.71B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 133.3% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 32.24× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 165% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for TKO Group Holdings (TKO)
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 TKO Group Holdings (TKO)
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 TKO Group Holdings (TKO)
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 TKO Group Holdings (TKO)
Latest: $866.80M
Overview
As of the 2025 fiscal year, TKO Group Holdings (TKO) reported buyback spend of $866.80M – surged 425.3% year-over-year.
2025 marks the peak buyback spend at $866.80M, with the historical low of $0.00 recorded in 2015.
TKO Group Holdings Buyback Spend 2025: $866.80M
TKO Group Holdings posted buyback spend of $866.80M in 2025, surged 425.3% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
TKO Group Holdings Buyback Spend 2024: $165.00M
In 2024, TKO Group Holdings reported buyback spend of $165.00M, surged 65.0% from 2023.
TKO Group Holdings Buyback Spend 2023: $100.00M
TKO Group Holdings buyback spend in 2023 was $100.00M, surged 3375.8% from 2022.
TKO Group Holdings Buyback Spend 2022: $2.88M
2022's buyback spend for TKO Group Holdings came in at $2.88M, plunged 98.3% below 2021.
TKO Group Holdings Buyback Spend 2021: $165.63M
TKO Group Holdings buyback spend in 2021 was $165.63M.
See more financial history for TKO Group Holdings (TKO).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $866.80M | $0.00 | $866.80M | 5.29% | 0.19B | +12.9% | |
| 2024 | $165.00M | $94.64M | $70.36M | 1.43% | 0.17B | +107.6% | |
| 2023 | $100.00M | $57.11M | $42.89M | 1.48% | 0.08B | -0.4% | |
| 2022 | $2.88M | $23.74M | −$20.87M | 0.05% | 0.08B | 0.0% | |
| 2021 | $165.63M | $0.00 | $165.63M | 4.31% | 0.08B | 0.0% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.08B | -7.8% | |
| 2019 | $83.44M | $0.00 | $83.44M | — | 0.09B | +1.8% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.09B | +12.9% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.08B | +1.2% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.08B | +1.6% | |
| 2015 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.08B | — |
- 2025$866.80M
- 2024$165.00M
- 2023$100.00M
- 2022$2.88M
- 2021$165.63M
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$83.44M
- 2018$0.00
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
- 2015$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for TKO Group Holdings (TKO)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 32.24×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for TKO Group Holdings (TKO)
How TKO Group Holdings splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as TKO Group Holdings, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $45.71B | |
| $26.25B | |
| $9.97B | |
| $9.13B | |
| $4.50B | |
| $3.50B | |
| $510.99M | |
| $0.00 |
- $45.71B
- $26.25B
- $9.97B
- $9.13B
- $4.50B
- $3.50B
- $510.99M
- $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 $1.04B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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