Share buybacks · 2012–2025

General Electric share buybacks

$7.6B+29.6% · FY2025

General Electric (GE) reported $7.6B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +29.6% year on year.

−$5.0B2012−$10.2B2013−$2.2B2014−$2.7B2015−$22.6B2016$28.0M2020$107M2021$1.0B2022$1.2B2023$5.8B2024$7.6B2025
General Electric — Share buybacks, 2012–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$7.6B+29.6%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$5.8B+372.6%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.2B+17.7%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.0B+879.4%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$107M+282.1%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$28.0M+$22.6BOpen →
FY20162016-12-31−$22.6B−$19.9BOpen →
FY20152015-12-31−$2.7B−$498MOpen →
FY20142014-12-31−$2.2B+$8.0BOpen →
FY20132013-12-31−$10.2B−$5.2BOpen →
FY20122012-12-31−$5.0B—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026

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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0000040545-26-000008 · January 29, 2026

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