Screener / SEC EDGAR /CIK 0001034054 /10-K filed Feb 27, 2026, compared with Feb 26, 2025 /Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks
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SBA Communications SBAC

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Cash returned and share count, year to Dec 31, 2025

Bought back $497.8M of its own shares, 6.6× what it paid in stock

XBRL, latest 10-K
Buybacks $497.8M cash paid for its own shares
Paid in stock to employees $75.7M stock-based compensation
Share count, 1 year -0.5% fewer shares: each share owns more
Share count, 3 years -1.7% diluted average shares

New shares against shares bought back

Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks · S-3 and 424B, 3 years; 10-K

Shares offered

Since Nov 15, 2023: 1 shelf registration.

“We may from time to time offer to sell our Class A common stock, preferred stock or debt securities either separately or represented by warrants, or depositary shares, as well as units that include any of these securities.”

S-3ASR, Feb 29, 2024
Every offering filing

Paid in stock

$75.7M

stock-based pay, year to Dec 31, 2025; shares sold for $48.0M in cash

Bought back

$497.8M

cash paid for its own shares, year to Dec 31, 2025: 6.6× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 107.53M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -0.5%2024 -0.8%2023 -0.4%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. How

Net share count, 4 years

Shares, buybacks and stock pay, fiscal years 2021 to 2025 · 10-K XBRL

-3.3% shares
Share count -3.3% diluted average shares, 4 years to Dec 31, 2025, splits taken out
Bought back $1.2B cash paid for its own shares, summed over the 4 years
Paid in stock $337.9M stock-based compensation, and $147.6M received for shares sold, summed over the same years
Fiscal yearShares, changeBought backPaid in stockCash from shares sold
Dec 31, 2025 -0.5% $497.8M $75.7M $48.0M
Dec 31, 2024 -0.8% $200.0M $74.4M $29.4M
Dec 31, 2023 -0.4% $100.0M $87.9M $38.6M
Dec 31, 2022 -1.6% $431.7M $99.9M $31.6M

Each year's change is the diluted weighted average share count against the year before, with stock splits taken out; the headline change compares the two ends of the span on one basis. Buybacks and stock pay are added up over the same years. Buybacks that only offset stock pay leave the count flat: both are shown, no verdict. How

Where the cash came from and where it went

FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up

Operating cash flowShares soldCash on hand usedCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacksDividendsDebt repaidOther, net Operating cash flow: $1.3B Operating cash flow $1.3B Shares sold: $48.0M Shares sold $48.0M Cash on hand used: $963.6M Cash on hand used $963.6M Capital spending: $224.8M Capital spending $224.8M Acquisitions: $1.1B Acquisitions $1.1B Buybacks: $497.8M Buybacks $497.8M Dividends: $479.0M Dividends $479.0M Debt repaid: $23.0M Debt repaid $23.0M Other, net: $19.5M Other, net $19.5M

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.

Where the operating cash went, year by year

FY2016 to FY2025 · cash flow statements, 10-K XBRL

10 years
Operating cash, added up $11.2B 10 fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025
Reinvested 71% capital spending and acquisitions, as a share of that cash
Returned to owners 67% buybacks and dividends, as a share of that cash
Debt repaid $5.0B gross repayments added up; debt that was refinanced counts each time
Fiscal yearOperating cashCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacksDividendsDebt repaid
Dec 31, 2025 $1.3B $224.8M$1.1B$497.8M$479.0M$23.0M
Dec 31, 2024 $1.3B $228.1M$299.8M$200.0M$424.2M$2.3B
Dec 31, 2023 $1.5B $236.7M$130.0M$100.0M$370.0M$24.0M
Dec 31, 2022 $1.3B $214.4M$1.2B$431.7M$306.8M$24.0M
Dec 31, 2021 $1.2B $133.7M$1.3B$582.6M$253.6M$1.9B
Dec 31, 2020 $1.1B $128.6M$271.4M$859.3M$207.7M$759.1M
Dec 31, 2019 $970.0M $154.2M$774.0M$467.0M$83.4M-
Dec 31, 2018 $850.6M $149.8M$451.8M$795.6M--
Dec 31, 2017 $818.5M $147.0M$441.5M$854.5M--
Dec 31, 2016 $742.5M $140.0M$276.8M$545.7M--
Added up$11.2B $1.8B
16% of operating cash
$6.1B
55% of operating cash
$5.3B
48% of operating cash
$2.1B
19% of operating cash
$5.0B
45% of operating cash

Each bar is one fiscal year; its colours add up to what the cash flow statement says the company spent on each line, and the line across it is that year's operating cash flow. Spending above the line was paid from new debt, shares sold or cash on hand. A bar part links to the 10-K it comes from. A line the company did not report is left out, not estimated, so the shares are of operating cash only and can add up to more or less than 100%. Debt repaid is the gross amount, so refinanced debt is counted each time it is repaid. A reading aid, not a grade: Tickdelta does not say whether a split was good. Banks and insurers are left out.

Buybacks, dividends and share count

Year by year · XBRL, each 10-K

Fiscal year toBuybacksDividendsDiluted shares
Dec 31, 2025$497.8M $479.0M 107.53M
Dec 31, 2024$200.0M $424.2M 108.08M
Dec 31, 2023$100.0M $370.0M 108.91M
Dec 31, 2022$431.7M $306.8M 109.39M
Dec 31, 2021$582.6M $253.6M 111.18M

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 = ShareBasedCompensation; issuance = ProceedsFromStockOptionsExercised; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

Buybacks month by month, and what is left to buy

Share buybacks · 10-Q, Part II Item 2, latest 4 quarters

“On April 27, 2025, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase plan authorizing us to repurchase, from time to time, up to $1.5 billion of our Class A common stock (the “Repurchase Plan”).”

10-Q, Part II Item 2

“As of the date of this filing, we had $0.8 billion remaining under the Repurchase Plan.”

10-Q, Part II Item 2
MonthShares boughtAverage price
Sep 2026 574,811 $173.97
Aug 2026 1,094,780 $182.68

Shares and average price are the numbers in the 10-Q table, row by row; "shares × price" is our multiplication of the two. A row with a price of "-" is an accelerated repurchase paid up front, where the 10-Q does not give a price yet. A 10-Q that counts shares in millions gives a rounded number, shown as "about". Shares withheld for employees' taxes are not in this table. A month that no 10-Q table gives, or that this page could not read with confidence, is not shown.

What it paid for each share it bought back

Price paid · 10-K, statement of shareholders' equity

Cheapest year $144.81 fiscal year to Dec 31, 2017
Dearest year $332.00 fiscal year to Dec 31, 2022
Average over these years $207.28 $4.8B spent

What SBAC 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 toShares boughtSpentAverage price
Dec 31, 2025 2.50M$497.8M $199.12
Dec 31, 2024 900K$200.0M $222.22
Dec 31, 2023 500K$100.0M $200.00
Dec 31, 2022 1.30M$431.6M $332.00
Dec 31, 2021 1.90M$582.5M $306.58
Dec 31, 2020 3.10M$856.0M $276.13
Dec 31, 2019 2.00M$470.3M $235.15
Dec 31, 2018 5.00M$795.5M $159.10
Dec 31, 2017 5.90M$854.4M $144.81

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.

What the 10-Ks show for each CEO's years

Each CEO's years · the CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table

Brendan T. Cavanagh

FY2024 to FY2025 · 2 years in the table
Operating cash flow
$2.6B
Capital spending
$453.0M
Acquisitions
$1.4B
Buybacks
$697.8M
Dividends
$903.2M
Stock-based pay
$150.1M
Diluted shares since FY2023
-1.3%
Revenue since FY2023
+4%
Debt since FY2023
+$576.0M
CEO pay (reported)
$20.2M
The proxy that names the CEO

Jeffrey A. Stoops

FY2021 to FY2023 · 3 years in the table
Operating cash flow
$4.0B
Capital spending
$584.8M
Acquisitions
$2.6B
Buybacks
$1.1B
Dividends
$930.3M
Stock-based pay
$272.2M
Diluted shares since FY2020
-4.0%
Revenue since FY2020
+30%
Debt since FY2020
+$1.2B
CEO pay (reported)
$34.6M
The proxy that names the CEO

Sources

The cash flow statement, dividends per share and diluted share count in each 10-K's XBRL; Part II Item 2 of each 10-Q for monthly buybacks; offering prospectuses (S-3, 424B) for new shares; Form D data sets for private raises.

Also

CEO pay: what the CEO was paid over the same years.

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