Buyback yield (TTM)
5.25%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
5.25%
5Y share count change
20.9%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$7.75B
Cumulative buybacks
$8.01B
Key takeaways
- Uber (UBER) repurchased about $7.75B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 20.9% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 4.16× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 79% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Uber (UBER)
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 Uber (UBER)
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 Uber (UBER)
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 Uber (UBER)
Latest: $6.52B
Overview
As of the 2025 fiscal year, Uber (UBER) reported buyback spend of $6.52B – surged 421.0% year-over-year.
Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $6.52B in 2025 and its low of $0.00 in 2019.
Uber Buyback Spend 2025: $6.52B
In 2025, Uber reported buyback spend of $6.52B, surged 421.0% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Uber Buyback Spend 2024: $1.25B
Uber buyback spend in 2024 was $1.25B.
Uber Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Uber buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Uber Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Uber buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Uber Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Uber buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Uber (UBER).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $6.52B | $1.83B | $4.70B | 3.85% | 2.12B | -1.4% | |
| 2024 | $1.25B | $1.80B | −$544.00M | 0.99% | 2.15B | +2.8% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $1.94B | −$1.94B | — | 2.09B | +5.9% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $1.79B | −$1.79B | — | 1.97B | +4.4% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $1.17B | −$1.17B | — | 1.89B | +8.0% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $827.00M | −$827.00M | — | 1.75B | +40.4% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $4.60B | −$4.60B | — | 1.25B | -25.6% | |
| 2018 | $10.00M | $170.00M | −$160.00M | 0.01% | 1.68B | -0.9% | |
| 2017 | $131.00M | $124.00M | $7.00M | 0.19% | 1.69B | +10.9% | |
| 2016 | $90.00M | $107.00M | −$17.00M | — | 1.53B | — |
- 2025$6.52B
- 2024$1.25B
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$10.00M
- 2017$131.00M
- 2016$90.00M
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Uber (UBER)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 4.16×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Uber (UBER)
How Uber splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Uber, 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 $9.80B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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