Buyback yield (TTM)
2.65%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
2.65%
5Y share count change
31.6%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$413M
Cumulative buybacks
$163M
Key takeaways
- Toast (TOST) repurchased about $413M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 31.6% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 1.75× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 63% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Toast (TOST)
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 Toast (TOST)
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 Toast (TOST)
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 Toast (TOST)
Latest: $107M
Overview
The 2025 reading of Toast (TOST) buyback spend is $107M – surged 91.1% year-over-year.
$107M stands as the all-time-high annual buyback spend, posted in 2025, against a low of $0.00 during 2019.
Toast Buyback Spend 2025: $107M
Toast buyback spend in 2025 was $107M, surged 91.1% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Toast Buyback Spend 2024: $56M
Toast buyback spend in 2024 was $56M.
Toast Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Toast buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Toast Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Toast buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Toast Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Toast buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
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Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $107M | $242M | -$135M | 0.51% | 607M | +2.7% | |
| 2024 | $56M | $258M | -$202M | 0.27% | 591M | +10.9% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $287M | -$287M | — | 533M | +4.1% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $238M | -$238M | — | 512M | +1.9% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $159M | -$159M | — | 503M | +9.0% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $86M | -$86M | — | 461M | 0.0% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $34M | -$34M | — | 461M | — |
- 2025$107M
- 2024$56M
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Toast (TOST)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 1.75×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Toast (TOST)
How Toast splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Toast, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $90.7B | |
| $40.1B | |
| $22.3B | |
| $6.31B | |
| $1.32B | |
| $0.00 | |
| $0.00 |
- $90.7B
- $40.1B
- $22.3B
- $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 $654M (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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