Bought back $2.0B of its own shares, 5.1× what it paid in stock
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
Shares offered
Since Nov 12, 2023: 1 shelf registration.
- Jul 24, 2024 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“We may offer from time to time common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares representing preferred stock, debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts or units.”
S-3ASR, Jul 24, 2024 ↗
Diluted shares: 494.00M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -0.4%2024 -0.6%2023 -1.2%2022 -1.6%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
Where the cash came from and where it went
No cash flow chart for banks and insurers: their operating cash flow moves with loans, deposits and trading, so it says little about how cash was spent.
Buybacks, dividends and share count
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $2.0B | $1.7B | $394.0M | $147.0M | 494.00M |
| 2024-12-31 | $900.0M | $1.5B | $368.0M | $137.0M | 496.00M |
| 2023-12-31 | $1.1B | $1.3B | $363.0M | $116.0M | 499.00M |
| 2022-12-31 | $1.9B | $1.1B | $367.0M | $50.0M | 505.00M |
| 2021-12-31 | $1.2B | $1.0B | $348.0M | $103.0M | 513.00M |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; issuance = ProceedsFromStockOptionsExercised; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
What it paid for each share it bought back
What MRSH paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year to | Shares bought | Spent | Average price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12-31 | - | - | $29.44 | |
| 2010-12-31 | 3.37M | $85.5M | $25.40 |
Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out. The latest year with both numbers tagged is 2011.