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S&P Global Inc

SPGI#51 of 134 by buybacks

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Buybacks · FY2025$5.00Blatest fiscal year
Buyback yield4.2%repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · FY2025$1.17Bdividend yield 1.0%
Shareholder yield5.1%buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr+22.1%296M shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow92%payout incl. dividends 113%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count up 22.1% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in USD. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in USD. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Dec 2025$5.00B$1.17B$5.46B
FY2024Dec 2024$3.30B$1.13B$5.57B
FY2023Dec 2023$3.30B$1.15B$3.57B
FY2022Dec 2022$12.0B$1.02B$2.51B
FY2021Dec 2021$8.50B$743M$3.56B
FY2020Dec 2020$1.16B$645M$3.49B
FY2019Dec 2019$1.24B$560M$2.66B

Repurchases in FY2025 were +51.5% versus the prior year.

About S&P Global Inc

S&P Global Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides benchmarks, data, analytics, and workflow solutions in the global capital, energy and commodity, and automotive markets. It operates through four segments: S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Energy, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P Global Market Intelligence segment provides multi-asset-class data and analytics integrated with purpose-built workflow solutions. This segment offers Data, Analytics & Insights, a desktop product sui…

Market cap
$120B
P/E (trailing)
24.5×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
US78409V1044
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 10, 2026
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