Share buyback

In addition to dividend payments, we intend to return cash to our shareholders on a regular basis through share buybacks or capital repayment, subject to our actual and anticipated level of liquidity requirements and other relevant factors.


The following graph shows the last five years of share buyback repurchased, cumulative from initial start in 2006, in million EUR:

Share buyback history table

Full details


Year Total amount paid (in EUR millions) Total Number of Shares Purchased Average Price Paid per Share (EUR)
Share buybacks 2006
677
40,385,139
16.77
Synthetic Share buybacks 2007
1,012
55,093,409
18.37
Share buybacks 2007
360
17,000,000
21.16
Share buybacks 2008
88
5,000,000
17.52
Share buybacks 2011
700
25,674,576
27.26
Synthetic Share buybacks 2012
3,728
93,411,216
39.91
Share buybacks 2012
535
13,478,058
39.71
Share buybacks 2013
300
4,614,179
65.02
Share buybacks 2014
700
9,981,375
70.13
Share buybacks 2015
565
6,272,776
90.05
Share buybacks 2016
400
4,763,378
83.97
Share buybacks 2017
500
3,468,737
144.14
Share buybacks 2018
1,146
7,044,389
162.70
Share buybacks 2019
410
1,948,808
210.39
Share buybacks 2020  1,207  3,908,429  308.94
Share buybacks 2021  8,560  14,358,838  596.17
Share buybacks 2022  4,640  8,538,787  543.37
Share buybacks 2023  1,000  1,620,128  617.23

Previous share buyback programs

under the 2016 Market Abuse Regulation (Nr. 596/2014)

2022-2025 share buyback program

On 10 November, ASML announced its new share buyback program to be executed by 31 December 2025. ASML intends to repurchase shares up to an amount of €12 billion, of which we expect a total of up to 2 million shares will be used to cover employee share plans.


Details on the share purchase can be found in the Excel overview below:
Share buyback XLS