Share buybacks · 2011–2025

MSCI share buybacks

$2.5B+180.6% · FY2025

MSCI (MSCI) reported $2.5B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +180.6% year on year.

$14.6M2011$106M2012$112M2013$410M2014$701M2015$775M2016$150M2017$950M2018$292M2019$779M2020$198M2021$1.4B2022$504M2023$885M2024$2.5B2025
MSCI — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$2.5B+180.6%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$885M+75.6%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$504M−63.9%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.4B+604.5%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$198M−74.5%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$779M+166.5%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$292M−69.3%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$950M+531.3%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$150M−80.6%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$775M+10.5%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$701M+71.1%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$410M+265.2%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$112M+5.8%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$106M+624.7%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$14.6M—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 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +44.3%

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Ready-made references for the figures on this page, as published on September 25, 2026.

Wikipedia

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APA 7

CompaniesRanked. (September 25, 2026). MSCI share buybacks. CompaniesRanked. https://companiesranked.com/en/company/msci/share-buybacks

BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-msci-share-buybacks-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{MSCI share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/msci/share-buybacks}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001408198-26-000011 · February 6, 2026

{{cite web |title=MSCI share buybacks — 10-K (0001408198-26-000011) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408198/000140819826000011/msci-20251231.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-02-06}}

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