Buyback yield · Ranked

Highest buyback yields.

Buyback yield = share-repurchase dollars in the latest fiscal year on file divided by market cap (shares outstanding from the 10-K or 10-Q cover page times the closing price on 2026-10-09). Unlike headline dollar volume (which favors the biggest companies), yield normalizes — it tells you how aggressively a company is returning capital relative to its own size.

#	Ticker	Sector	Yield	FY repurchased
1	WFC Wells Fargo & Company	Financials	6.9%	$17.5B
2	CRM Salesforce, Inc.	Technology	6.7%	$12.6B
3	BAC Bank of America Corporation	Financials	5.6%	$21.4B
4	GS The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	Financials	4.7%	$12.4B
5	JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co.	Financials	3.6%	$31.6B
6	COP ConocoPhillips	Energy	3.1%	$5.0B
7	CVX Chevron Corporation	Energy	2.9%	$12.1B
8	XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation	Energy	2.9%	$20.3B
9	AAPL Apple Inc.	Technology	1.8%	$90.7B
10	MS Morgan Stanley	Financials	1.5%	$4.6B
11	PG The Procter & Gamble Company	Consumer Staples	1.4%	$5.0B
12	CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc.	Technology	1.3%	$6.1B
13	WMT Walmart Inc.	Consumer Staples	0.9%	$8.1B
14	NVDA NVIDIA Corporation	Technology	0.7%	$40.1B
15	MSFT Microsoft Corporation	Technology	0.6%	$22.3B
16	COST Costco Wholesale Corporation	Consumer Staples	0.2%	$848M
17	LOW Lowe's Companies, Inc.	Consumer Discretionary	0.2%	$211M
18	AVGO Broadcom Inc.	Technology	0.1%	$2.5B
19	ORCL Oracle Corporation	Technology	0%	$95M
20	HD The Home Depot, Inc.	Consumer Discretionary	0%	$0

High yield is not automatically bullish. A buyback yield spiking because the market cap cratered tells a different story than one rising because the board announced a larger program. Always cross-reference against total-return performance and the authorization trajectory on the main tracker.

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