Buyback yield (TTM)
0.10%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
0.10%
5Y share count change
19.4%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$21.51M
Cumulative buybacks
$3.83M
Key takeaways
- Zscaler (ZS) repurchased about $21.51M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 19.4% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 0.03× — repurchases only partially offset SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 2% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Zscaler (ZS)
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 Zscaler (ZS)
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 Zscaler (ZS)
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 Zscaler (ZS)
Latest: $0.00
Overview
The 2025 reading of Zscaler (ZS) buyback spend is $0.00.
Zscaler buyback spend peaked at $3.81M in 2018; the latest annual figure is $0.00 in 2025 (100.0% below peak).
The highest annual buyback spend of $3.81M was reported in 2018. The lowest in the available history was $0.00 in 2015.
Zscaler Buyback Spend 2025: $0.00
Zscaler buyback spend in 2025 was $0.00.
Zscaler Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00
Zscaler buyback spend in 2024 was $0.00.
Zscaler Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00
Zscaler buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.
Zscaler Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Zscaler buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
Zscaler Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Zscaler buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Zscaler (ZS).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $0.00 | $661.35M | −$661.35M | — | 0.15B | +3.2% | |
| 2024 | $0.00 | $527.68M | −$527.68M | — | 0.15B | +3.2% | |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $444.83M | −$444.83M | — | 0.14B | +2.9% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $409.56M | −$409.56M | — | 0.14B | +3.9% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $258.54M | −$258.54M | — | 0.14B | +4.9% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $121.39M | −$121.39M | — | 0.13B | +4.7% | |
| 2019 | $22.00K | $46.42M | −$46.40M | 0.00% | 0.12B | +93.4% | |
| 2018 | $3.81M | $11.22M | −$7.41M | 0.09% | 0.06B | -38.4% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $9.92M | −$9.92M | — | 0.10B | +268.3% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $3.62M | −$3.62M | — | 0.03B | +7.8% | |
| 2015 | $0.00 | $1.56M | −$1.56M | — | 0.03B | — |
- 2025$0.00
- 2024$0.00
- 2023$0.00
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$22.00K
- 2018$3.81M
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
- 2015$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Zscaler (ZS)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 0.03×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Zscaler (ZS)
How Zscaler splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Zscaler, 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 $960.23M (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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