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Buyback Accelerators: 3 Stocks Boosting Capacity & Spending Speed
Written by Leo Miller. Published 10/28/2025.
Key Points
- Three stocks have just added more than $17 billion in new buyback capacity. They also look poised to increase their spending.
- Two now boast buyback capacity greater than 11% of their market capitalizations.
- The prospect of higher buyback capacity and increased spending speed is a solid positive signal for investors.
Adding new buyback capacity is positive, but it doesn't always mean a company will increase the pace of its buyback spending. That acceleration is particularly meaningful because it speeds up the delivery of buyback benefits — reducing share count faster and creating a tailwind for metrics like earnings per share.
Below, we detail three stocks that recently boosted their buyback capacity and could also increase the pace of repurchases: a two-sided win for investors.
Capital One Greatly Boosts Buybacks in Q3, Adds $16 Billion in Capacity
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Click here to see how the "weekly dividend" setup worksFirst up is one of the world's biggest names in consumer finance, Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF). Like many financial services companies, Capital One has performed well in 2025, delivering a year-to-date return of just over 27%. The firm released its Q3 results on Oct. 21 and announced a hefty new buyback program. Its new authorization is worth $16 billion, equal to about 11.2% of its roughly $143 billion market capitalization.
The company is already accelerating buyback spending and could step it up further. This announcement follows Capital One spending $1 billion on buybacks in Q3, while it had repurchased only about $600 million from Q3 2024 through Q2 2025.
On the earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Young said, "At least in the very near term, it's reasonable to assume that we'll be picking up the pace of share repurchases from here." Clearly, buybacks look poised to become a much more significant part of Capital One's capital allocation strategy — a positive for the stock.
EPAM May Accelerate Repurchases With Shares Down Big
Next is mid-cap IT services company EPAM Systems (NYSE: EPAM). EPAM has been hit hard in 2025, with shares down roughly 32% and trading at about one-third of their 2022 peak. A new $1 billion share repurchase program, announced Oct. 21, signals the company sees value at current levels. The buyback equals roughly 11.3% of EPAM's roughly $8.9 billion market capitalization, and the authorization carries a 24-month term.
In Q2, the firm spent approximately $195 million on buybacks — its second-highest quarterly total ever. To fully use the new capacity over the next eight quarters, EPAM would need to raise average quarterly repurchases by about 28% from that level. That boost would be a meaningful tailwind for the shares. Still, the company is not obligated to deploy the full authorization.
Barclays Boosts Guidance and Announces Unlikely Buyback
Last is another major name in banking, Barclays (NYSE: BCS). Barclays' shares have rallied in 2025, returning just under 60%. With its Q3 2025 results, the bank announced a surprise buyback authorization amid stronger-than-expected earnings. The firm raised its return on tangible equity (ROTE) guidance for 2025 to greater than 11% (previously 11%). The authorization equals around $670 million, or roughly 0.9% of its $71.9 billion market cap. This relatively small amount sits within Barclays' much larger three-year capital-return program.
From 2024 through 2026, Barclays intends to return $13 billion in capital to shareholders (or "at least 10 billion GBP," according to the company). That return will come via dividends and buybacks, with total distributions in 2025 expected to be higher than in 2024. Because results came in better than anticipated, Barclays authorized $670 million of this program early. The bank's improving momentum should help it deliver on its capital-return plans faster than expected, suggesting its strong 2025 performance may carry into 2026.
Does EPAM's Steep Drop and Buyback Boost Indicate Opportunity?
Capital One, EPAM, and Barclays all appear positioned to increase the pace of their buyback spending.
Among them, EPAM stands out as a name worth further scrutiny. Its dramatic share decline could present value, especially if the company moves to ramp up repurchases.
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