Which companies discussed Share Buybacks in Health Care in earnings calls?
321 companies mentioned share buybacks across 712 earnings calls in Health Care over the past year, spanning 1 sectors. The most active were Zomedica Corp. (10 calls), Exelixis, Inc. (10 calls), Qiagen N.V. (9 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 110 |
| 2025Q1 | 162 |
| 2025Q2 | 107 |
| 2025Q3 | 136 |
| 2025Q4 | 148 |
| 2026Q1 | 213 |
| 2026Q2 | 182 |
| 2026Q3 | 166 |
| 2026Q4 | 32 |
Companies ranked by mentions
Representative quotes
…benefit of Apnimeds. There's some non-op benefit in the earnings per share. We also had a much more weighted share buyback in the first quarter. So we talked about almost $1 billion worth of cash deployed towards share buyback. You saw our Wassa come down quite…
…number of those launches will occur in '27. Vijay Kumar (Analysts): That's helpful. Maybe, Preston one for you. I saw the buyback in the quarter. You have a new authorization for $3 billion. What's the, I guess, philosophy behind capital allocation editions, right? Is this something…
Finally, our strategic and financial posture continues to focus on taking advantage of our disconnect from intrinsic value through our previously discussed share buyback program and judicious use of resources to capture the full opportunity from each of our launches. With that, I'll turn it over…
…million to $300 million in adjusted EBITDA. In the quarter, we repurchased just over 3 million shares of our stock, bringing our total buyback since August of 2025 to 10 million shares and our shares outstanding to 78 million, down from 87 million…
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 Health Care in the past year?
Zomedica Corp. (ZOMDF) led with 10 calls referencing share buybacks, most recently on October 23, 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 →
Last updated: October 31, 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.