UNHUnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a health care and well-being company with a mission to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 390,000
- Headquarters
- Eden Prairie, MN
- CEO
- Stephen J. Hemsley
- Next results
- around Jan 26, 2027
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGARShares offered
Since Nov 11, 2023: 1 shelf registration; also 3 notes offerings.
- Mar 2, 2026 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“Securities Guarantees UnitedHealth Group Incorporated from time to time may offer: • debt securities; shares of our preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share; shares of our common stock, $0.01 par value per share; warrants to purchase debt securities, preferred stock or common stock that may be sold under this prospectus; and guarantees.”
S-3ASR, Mar 2, 2026 ↗
Diluted shares: 911.00M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -1.9%2024 -1.0%2023 -1.3%2022 -0.6%
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
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.
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $5.5B | $7.9B | $971.0M | $827.0M | 911.00M |
| 2024-12-31 | $9.0B | $7.5B | $1.0B | $1.8B | 929.00M |
| 2023-12-31 | $8.0B | $6.8B | $1.1B | $1.4B | 938.00M |
| 2022-12-31 | $7.0B | $6.0B | $925.0M | $1.3B | 950.00M |
| 2021-12-31 | $5.0B | $5.3B | $800.0M | $1.4B | 956.00M |
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 = ProceedsFromIssuanceOfCommonStock; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
Price paid per share
What UNH 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 12.00M | $5.5B | $460.42 | |
| 2024-12-31 | 17.00M | $9.0B | $529.71 | |
| 2023-12-31 | 16.00M | $8.1B | $503.69 | |
| 2022-12-31 | 14.00M | $7.0B | $500.00 | |
| 2021-12-31 | 13.00M | $5.0B | $384.62 | |
| 2020-12-31 | 14.00M | $4.2B | $303.57 | |
| 2019-12-31 | 22.00M | $5.5B | $250.00 | |
| 2018-12-31 | 19.00M | $4.5B | $236.84 | |
| 2017-12-31 | 9.00M | $1.5B | $166.67 | |
| 2016-12-31 | 10.00M | $1.3B | $128.00 |
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.
Work on UNH in a spreadsheet:
Excel workbook (a sheet per section, ten years by column, charts, links to the filings) ·
CSV.
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