Which companies discussed Share Buybacks in earnings calls?
3,640 companies mentioned share buybacks across 8,991 earnings calls over the past year, spanning 11 sectors. The most active were International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (15 calls), SBA Communications Corporation (14 calls), Royal Gold, Inc. (13 calls). The table below ranks every company by how often the theme came up, with direct links to each transcript.
Mentions over time
Data table
| Quarter | Calls mentioning Share Buybacks |
|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 136 |
| 2024Q4 | 1,998 |
| 2025Q1 | 2,370 |
| 2025Q2 | 1,769 |
| 2025Q3 | 1,966 |
| 2025Q4 | 2,032 |
| 2026Q1 | 2,607 |
| 2026Q2 | 2,196 |
| 2026Q3 | 2,015 |
Companies ranked by mentions
Representative quotes
…minutes I want to shift to capital allocation and M&A. -- you've returned over $160 million to shareholders year-to-date in buybacks and you target 50% of free cash flow over time. What do you look for to determine whether you lean a little bit above…
…rights. As part of that, we have a $150 million sublimit of that $500 million where we can use for a share buyback, which we announced a EUR 50 million share buyback in June that we expect to complete by year end. In terms of the other capital…
…good luck. I hope you find what you're looking for. So with that, staying on capital allocation, you increased your share buyback by $100 million. I think now your new share repurchase authorization totals about $700 million, and you're on pace for $460 million in buyback…
…lumpy ultimately, when deals get through inhabitor that, should we just assume that there's going to be a little bit more buybacks? How are you kind of thinking about ultimately the deployment of that capital? William Grace (Executives): Yes. I mean the philosophy of the framework…
Frequently asked questions
What is Share Buybacks and why are companies discussing it?
Repurchase authorisations and execution — the capital-return signal investors track alongside dividends.
Which company mentioned share buybacks most in the past year?
International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (IAG) led with 15 calls referencing share buybacks, most recently on August 13, 2026.
How can I track share buybacks mentions across earnings calls via API?
The EarningsCalls.dev REST API exposes the same data behind this page. Use the search_transcripts and count_mentions_by_ticker endpoints to query our archive of 33,000+ earnings call transcripts — keyword search, sector / date filters, per-company mention counts, and the underlying full transcripts. See the API docs →
Share Buybacks by sector
- Financials (196)
- Materials (84)
- Industrials (64)
- Information Technology (56)
- Health Care (37)
- Real Estate (23)
Last updated: September 16, 2026. Methodology: full-text search across all earnings call transcripts in our corpus over the past 12 months, matching the canonical term and its aliases (buyback, buyback, buybacks, share repurchase, share repurchases). Mentions are per call, not per occurrence within a call; the company-rank table is built by counting distinct calls mentioning the theme. Page refreshes every hour at the edge as new calls land in our archive.