Bought back $1.5B of its own shares, 3.5× what it paid in stock
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
Shares offered
Since Nov 12, 2023: 1 registration of shares for a merger, units or notes, 1 shelf registration.
- Oct 28, 2026 Shares for a merger, units or notes 424B5
- Feb 14, 2025 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering to finance a portion of the purchase price for the acquisition (the “Acquisition”) of Silicon Laboratories Inc. (“Silicon Labs”) pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 4, 2026 (the “Merger Agreement”), among us, Silicon Labs, and Caldwell Merger Corp., and to pay related fees and expenses.”
424B5, Oct 28, 2026 ↗
Diluted shares: 913.00M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -0.7%2024 +0.3%2023 -1.1%2022 -1.1%
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 | $7.2B |
| Debt raised | $1.2B |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$3.4B |
Went to
| Capital spending | $4.5B |
| Buybacks | $1.5B |
| Dividends | $5.0B |
| Debt repaid | $750.0M |
| Added to cash | $25.0M |
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. Ilan
- Operating cash flow
- $13.5B
- Capital spending
- $9.4B
- Buybacks
- $2.4B
- Dividends
- $9.8B
- Stock-based pay
- $806.0M
- Diluted shares since FY2023
- -0.3%
- Revenue since FY2023
- +1%
- Debt since FY2023
- +$2.8B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $41.7M
Mr. Ilan, Mr. Templeton
- Operating cash flow
- $6.4B
- Capital spending
- $5.1B
- Buybacks
- $293.0M
- Dividends
- $4.6B
- Stock-based pay
- $362.0M
- Diluted shares since FY2022
- -1.1%
- Revenue since FY2022
- -13%
- Debt since FY2022
- +$2.5B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $37.1M
Mr. Templeton
- Operating cash flow
- $17.5B
- Capital spending
- $5.3B
- Buybacks
- $4.1B
- Dividends
- $8.2B
- Stock-based pay
- $519.0M
- Diluted shares since FY2020
- -0.8%
- Revenue since FY2020
- +38%
- Debt since FY2020
- +$1.9B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $40.8M
Buybacks, dividends and share count
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $1.5B | $5.0B | $419.0M | - | 913.00M |
| 2024-12-31 | $929.0M | $4.8B | $387.0M | - | 919.00M |
| 2023-12-31 | $293.0M | $4.6B | $362.0M | - | 916.00M |
| 2022-12-31 | $3.6B | $4.3B | $289.0M | - | 926.00M |
| 2021-12-31 | $527.0M | $3.9B | $230.0M | - | 936.00M |
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 = PaymentsOfDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.