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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

TMO#74 of 134 by buybacks

NYSE · Healthcare · Diagnostics & Research · USA

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Buybacks · FY2025$3.00Blatest fiscal year
Buyback yield1.2%repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · FY2025$636Mdividend yield 0.3%
Shareholder yield1.5%buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−6.8%371M shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow48%payout incl. dividends 58%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 6.8% 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$3.00B$636M$6.29B
FY2024Dec 2024$4.00B$583M$7.27B
FY2023Dec 2023$3.00B$523M$6.93B
FY2022Dec 2022$3.00B$455M$6.91B
FY2021Dec 2021$2.00B$395M$7.02B
FY2020Dec 2020$1.50B$337M$6.82B
FY2019Dec 2019$1.50B$297M$4.05B

Repurchases in FY2025 were −25.0% versus the prior year.

About Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and biopharma services internationally. It operates through four segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Biopharma Services. The Life Sciences Solutions segment includes reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research; discovery and production of drugs and vaccines; and diagnosis of infe…

Market cap
$243B
P/E (trailing)
35.1×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
US8835561023
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 10, 2026
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