Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Waters share buybacks

$14.7M+8.3% · FY2025

Waters (WAT) reported $14.7M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +8.3% year on year.

$371M2011$296M2012$302M2013$337M2014$335M2015$326M2016$333M2017$1.3B2018$2.5B2019$196M2020$649M2021$626M2022$70.3M2023$13.5M2024$14.7M2025
Waters — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$14.7M+8.3%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$13.5M−80.7%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$70.3M−88.8%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$626M−3.5%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$649M+230.4%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$196M−92.0%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$2.5B+87.8%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$1.3B+295.5%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$333M+2.1%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$326M−2.7%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$335M−0.8%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$337M+11.9%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$302M+1.9%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$296M−20.2%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$371M—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 −20.6%

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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

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BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-waters-share-buybacks-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Waters share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/waters/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 · 0001193125-26-062604 · February 23, 2026

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