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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 buyback capacity is positive, but it doesn't always mean a company will increase the pace of its repurchases. The pace matters because faster repurchases reduce share count more quickly, creating a tailwind for key metrics such as earnings per share.
Below, we detail three stocks that recently boosted their buyback capacity and could also see an acceleration in repurchase activity — a two-sided win for investors.
Capital One Greatly Boosts Buybacks in Q3, Adds $16 Billion in Capacity
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First up is one of the world's biggest names in consumer finance, Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF). Like many financial services stocks, Capital One has performed well in 2025, returning just over 27% year to date. The firm released Q3 results on Oct. 21 and announced a hefty new buyback authorization worth $16 billion, representing about 11.2% of its roughly $143 billion market capitalization.
The company is notably accelerating its buyback activity and could increase the pace further. The announcement follows $1 billion of repurchases in Q3; Capital One had spent only $600 million on buybacks from Q3 2024 through Q2 2025.
On the earnings call, CFO 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." That suggests buybacks are poised to become a more significant part of Capital One's capital-allocation plan — a positive for shareholders.
EPAM May Accelerate Repurchases With Shares Down Big
Next is mid-cap IT services company EPAM Systems (NYSE: EPAM). EPAM has struggled in 2025, with shares down roughly 32% and trading at nearly one-third of their 2022 highs. A new $1 billion share repurchase program, announced on Oct. 21, signals that the company sees value in its current share price. The authorization represents roughly 11.3% of EPAM's approximately $8.9 billion market cap and carries a 24-month term.
In Q2 the firm repurchased about $195 million of stock, its second-highest quarterly level ever. To fully use the new authorization over the next eight quarters, EPAM would need to increase its average quarterly repurchases by roughly 28% from the Q2 level. That kind of acceleration would be a meaningful tailwind for the stock. Still, the company is not obligated to deploy the full authorization.
Barclays Boosts Guidance and Announces Unlikely Buyback
Finally, Barclays (NYSE: BCS) has had a strong 2025, with shares up just under 60%. Alongside its Q3 results, the bank announced a surprise buyback authorization as it reported better-than-expected earnings. Barclays raised its 2025 return on tangible equity (ROTE) guidance to above 11% (from 11%), and authorized roughly $670 million in buybacks — about 0.9% of its $71.9 billion market cap. This relatively small authorization sits within a 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 total will be delivered via dividends and buybacks, with distributions in 2025 expected to exceed those in 2024. Because results are stronger than anticipated, Barclays has brought forward $670 million of this planned return. The business appears to be gaining momentum, which could allow Barclays to execute its capital-return plans faster and sustain its strong 2025 performance into 2026.
Does EPAM Steep Drop and Buyback Boost Indicate Opportunity?
Capital One, EPAM, and Barclays all look like candidates to increase the pace of their buyback spending.
Among them, EPAM stands out for further examination. Its steep decline suggests there may be value in the name, especially if the company follows through on accelerating repurchases.
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