Sector

Materials buybacks

17 Materials companies bought back $19.6B of their own stock in the last twelve months.

	Company	12 months	Last quarter	Shares, 1 yr	Net of stock pay
1	NEMNewmont	$5.7B	$1.8B	−4.5%	$5.6B
2	LINLinde plc	$4.1B	$871M	−1.9%	$3.9B
3	SHWSherwin-Williams	$2.6B	$1.3B	−2.1%	$2.5B
4	ECLEcolab	$1.3B	$325M	−1.1%	$1.1B
5	CRHCRH plc	$1.1B	$275M	−1.3%	$994M
6	CFCF Industries	$958M	$225M	−5.6%	$915M
7	STLDSteel Dynamics	$766M	$200M	−2.9%	$697M
8	NUENucor	$675M	$350M	−1.0%	$529M
9	VMCVulcan Materials Company	$550M	$150M	−1.4%	$485M
10	PPGPPG Industries	$492M	$96M	−2.0%	$458M
11	BALLBall Corporation	$414M	$114M	−3.8%	$390M
12	AVYAvery Dennison	$411M	$138M	−2.4%	$385M
13	FCXFreeport-McMoRan	$203M	$110M	0.0%	$53M
14	MLMMartin Marietta Materials	$200M	$0	−0.3%	$150M
15	IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances	$71M	$36M	0.0%	−$17M
16	PKGPackaging Corporation of America	$59M	$0	−0.8%	$9M
17	IPInternational Paper	$33M	$1M	−0.6%	—

No buybacks reported: ALB, AMCR, APD, DOW, LYB, MOS, SW.