Buyback yield (TTM)
5.47%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
5.47%
5Y share count change
3.1%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$1.56B
Cumulative buybacks
$3.73B
Key takeaways
- Zoom Communications (ZM) repurchased about $1.56B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 3.1% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 2.12× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 80% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Zoom Communications (ZM)
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 Zoom Communications (ZM)
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 Zoom Communications (ZM)
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 Zoom Communications (ZM)
Latest: $1.62B
Overview
In 2026, Zoom Communications (ZM) buyback spend totalled $1.62B – surged 48.2% year-over-year.
Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $1.62B in 2026 and its low of $0.00 in 2019.
Zoom Communications Buyback Spend 2026: $1.62B
Zoom Communications posted buyback spend of $1.62B in 2026, surged 48.2% from 2025. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Zoom Communications Buyback Spend 2025: $1.09B
Zoom Communications buyback spend in 2025 was $1.09B.
Zoom Communications Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00
Zoom Communications buyback spend in 2024 was $0.00, plunged 100.0% below 2023.
Zoom Communications Buyback Spend 2023: $1.00B
Zoom Communications buyback spend in 2023 was $1.00B.
Zoom Communications Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Zoom Communications buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Zoom Communications (ZM).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2026 | $1.62B | $760.78M | $859.91M | 5.94% | 0.31B | -2.5% | |
| 2025 | $1.09B | $931.31M | $162.57M | 4.10% | 0.32B | +2.1% | |
| 2024 | $0.00 | $1.06B | −$1.06B | — | 0.31B | +1.4% | |
| 2023 | $1.00B | $1.29B | −$285.75M | 4.55% | 0.30B | -0.5% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $477.29M | −$477.29M | — | 0.31B | +2.6% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $275.82M | −$275.82M | — | 0.30B | +17.2% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $73.11M | −$73.11M | — | 0.25B | -5.4% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $8.94M | −$8.94M | — | 0.27B | 0.0% | |
| 2018 | $4.61M | $10.33M | −$5.72M | — | 0.27B | 0.0% | |
| 2017 | $14.97M | $1.04M | $13.93M | — | 0.27B | — |
- 2026$1.62B
- 2025$1.09B
- 2024$0.00
- 2023$1.00B
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$4.61M
- 2017$14.97M
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Zoom Communications (ZM)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 2.12×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Zoom Communications (ZM)
How Zoom Communications splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Zoom Communications, 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 $1.96B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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