Buyback yield (TTM)
0.04%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
0.12%
5Y share count change
27.2%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$37.60M
Cumulative buybacks
$941.50M
Key takeaways
- Vertiv Holdings (VRT) repurchased about $37.60M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 27.2% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 0.73× — repurchases only partially offset SBC dilution.
- Cash buyback spend has compounded at -100.0% 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 Vertiv Holdings (VRT)
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 Vertiv Holdings (VRT)
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 Vertiv Holdings (VRT)
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 Vertiv Holdings (VRT)
Latest: $0.00
Overview
The 2025 reading of Vertiv Holdings (VRT) buyback spend is $0.00 – plunged 100.0% year-over-year.
Through 2020–2025 (5 years), Vertiv Holdings buyback spend delivered a -100.0% annualised rate; with a net decline across the window.
Vertiv Holdings buyback spend peaked at $599.90M in 2024; the latest annual figure is $0.00 in 2025 (100.0% below peak).
Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $599.90M in 2024 and its low of $0.00 in 2016.
Vertiv Holdings Buyback Spend 2025: $0.00
In 2025, Vertiv Holdings reported buyback spend of $0.00, plunged 100.0% below 2024.
Vertiv Holdings Buyback Spend 2024: $599.90M
Vertiv Holdings buyback spend in 2024 was $599.90M.
Vertiv Holdings Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Vertiv Holdings buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Vertiv Holdings Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Vertiv Holdings buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Vertiv Holdings Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Vertiv Holdings buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Vertiv Holdings (VRT).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $0.00 | $45.90M | −$45.90M | — | 0.39B | +1.1% | |
| 2024 | $599.90M | $34.60M | $565.30M | 1.40% | 0.39B | +0.0% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $25.00M | −$25.00M | — | 0.39B | +2.1% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $24.70M | −$24.70M | — | 0.38B | +6.4% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $23.20M | −$23.20M | — | 0.36B | +15.8% | |
| 2020 | $341.60M | $13.00M | $328.60M | 5.54% | 0.31B | +159.7% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.12B | +37.1% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.09B | 0.0% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.09B | +25.0% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.07B | — |
- 2025$0.00
- 2024$599.90M
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$341.60M
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$0.00
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Vertiv Holdings (VRT)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 0.73×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Vertiv Holdings (VRT)
How Vertiv Holdings splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Vertiv Holdings, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $7.55B | |
| $5.19B | |
| $2.68B | |
| $1.86B | |
| $1.14B | |
| $1.13B | |
| $50.00M | |
| $0.00 |
- $7.55B
- $5.19B
- $2.68B
- $1.86B
- $1.14B
- $1.13B
- $50.00M
- $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 $2.23B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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