Bought back $75.0M of its own shares, 0.8× what it paid in stock
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
Shares offered
Since Nov 12, 2023: 2 at-the-market programs, 1 registration of shares for a merger, units or notes, 2 shelf registrations; also 2 notes offerings, 1 resale by holders.
- Sep 15, 2026 At-the-market program: up to $1.0B of common stock 424B5
- Aug 4, 2026 At-the-market program: up to $1.0B of common stock 424B5
- Jun 18, 2026 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
- Jun 18, 2026 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
- Dec 31, 2024 Shares for a merger, units or notes 424B3
Every offering filing →“Aggregate Offering Price of Up to $1,000,000,000 This prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relate to the offer and sale from time to time of shares of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, in an amount having an aggregate offering price of up to $1,000,000,000 through BofA Securities, Inc. acting as sales agent or principal, or, if applicable, as Forward Seller (as defined below) acting …”
424B5, Sep 15, 2026 ↗
Diluted shares: 625.90M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 +6.7%2024 +20.8%2023 +8.3%2022 +0.2%
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
FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $5.6B |
| Debt raised | $3.0B |
| Cash on hand used | $655.0M |
Went to
| Capital spending | $3.2B |
| Acquisitions | $25.0M |
| Buybacks | $75.0M |
| Dividends | $2.6B |
| Debt repaid | $3.0B |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$429.0M |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
What the 10-Ks show for each CEO's years
The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years.
Mr. Norton
- Operating cash flow
- $14.9B
- Capital spending
- $6.8B
- Acquisitions
- $10.9B
- Buybacks
- $234.0M
- Dividends
- $6.7B
- Stock-based pay
- $257.0M
- Diluted shares since FY2022
- +39.6%
- Revenue since FY2022
- +50%
- Debt since FY2022
- +$19.2B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $34.8M
Mr. Spencer
- Operating cash flow
- $5.5B
- Capital spending
- $1.9B
- Buybacks
- $0
- Dividends
- $3.3B
- Stock-based pay
- $107.0M
- Diluted shares since FY2020
- +3.8%
- Revenue since FY2020
- +162%
- Debt since FY2020
- -$600.0M
- CEO pay (reported)
- $24.7M
Buybacks, dividends and share count
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $75.0M | $2.6B | $92.0M | - | 625.90M |
| 2024-12-31 | $159.0M | $2.3B | $102.0M | - | 586.50M |
| 2023-12-31 | $0 | $1.8B | $63.0M | - | 485.40M |
| 2022-12-31 | $0 | $1.7B | $53.0M | $32.4M | 448.40M |
| 2021-12-31 | - | $1.7B | $54.0M | $32.8M | 447.40M |
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 = PaymentsOfDividends; sbc = AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.