The Carlyle Group (CG) Share Buybacks: History & Chart

The Carlyle Group Inc.(CG)

Asset Management · Washington, DC

$39.61+0.29 (+0.74%)

Delayed quote: Oct 6, 2026, 10:45 AM EDT

About The Carlyle Group Inc.

The Carlyle Group Inc. is a leading global investment firm that employs both direct investment and fund-of-fund strategies. Its direct investment expertise is extensive, encompassing management-led leveraged buyouts, privatizations, and divestitures, as well as strategic minority equity investments. The firm also allocates capital to structured credit opportunities, global distressed and corporate situations, and small-to-middle market enterprises. Its venture and growth capital activities span the full spectrum, from seed/startup and early-stage funding to emerging growth, turnaround situations, mid-venture, late-venture, and Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPES). Carlyle structures its investments across four primary segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Market Strategies, and Solutions. Carlyle's investment interests are remarkably broad, covering an extensive array of sectors worldwide. These include major industries like industrials (such as manufacturing, building products, chemicals, and metals), consumer and retail (including food and beverage, consumer products, and services), aerospace and defense, technology (covering software, semiconductors, and communications infrastructure), healthcare (services, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices), energy and power, real estate (from office and hotel properties to residential and specialized segments like student housing and senior living), financial services, transportation, telecommunications, media, business services, agribusiness, fintech, utilities, and gaming. The firm actively seeks out growing businesses, including those with overleveraged balance sheets. Typically, Carlyle aims to hold its investments for four to six years, although some may be held for three to five years, with specific mandates for automotive and transportation sector holdings also falling within the four-to-six-year range. With a significant global footprint, Carlyle actively invests across North America (including specific U.S. regions, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru), Europe (encompassing Western, Central-Eastern, and Nordic regions), Asia (including India, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, and China), Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and both Sub-Saharan and North Africa. The firm has particular geographic interests, such as focusing on the food, financial, and healthcare industries in Western China, and in Japan, it specifically targets companies valued between $100 million and $150 million, avoiding those with over 1,000 employees. Financially, Carlyle typically commits $1 million to $50 million for venture investments and $50 million to $2 billion for buyouts. It targets companies with an enterprise value between $31.57 million and $1 billion, sales ranging from $10 million to $500 million, a market capitalization exceeding $50 million, and EBITDA between $5 million and $25 million. Carlyle is flexible regarding its ownership stake, often taking either a majority or a minority position, and frequently acts as the lead equity investor, originating and structuring transactions. The Carlyle Group Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It maintains a robust global presence with additional offices in 21 countries across five continents: North America, South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Washington, DC

2,500 employees

www.carlyle.com

Financial Services / Asset Management

Sector: Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
CEO: Harvey Mitchell Schwartz

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Share Buybacks

The latest quarterly buybacks is −$304.10 Million with a QoQ Growth of -48.49%. Share buybacks (stock repurchases) represent cash spent by the company to buy back its own shares in the open market, reducing shares outstanding and returning capital to shareholders.

Q2 FY2026 (2026-06-30).

Dividends|Stock-Based Comp|EPS|Free Cash Flow|Cash Flow

Buybacks

CG Buybacks

$-304.10M

Reported quarterly buybacks; no daily interpolation. Q2 FY2026 (2026-06-30): $-304.10M.

≈17x over 10Y

Current Buybacks

−$304.10M

−$304.10 Million

Q2 FY2026 · 2026-06-30

QoQ Growth

-48.49%

vs. −$204.80M prior quarter

Historical Data

Quarters of data available

Quarterly Buybacks History

Period	Buybacks	QoQ Growth	YoY Growth
Q2 FY2026Period end 2026-06-30	−$304.10M	-48.49%	-193.53%
Q1 FY2026Period end 2026-03-31	−$204.80M	-0.54%	-16.03%
Q4 FY2025Period end 2025-12-31	−$203.70M	-0.49%	-168.73%
Q3 FY2025Period end 2025-09-30	−$202.70M	-95.66%	-34.68%
Q2 FY2025Period end 2025-06-30	−$103.60M	+41.30%	+41.90%
Q1 FY2025Period end 2025-03-31	−$176.50M	-132.85%	-17.67%
Q4 FY2024Period end 2024-12-31	−$75.80M	+49.63%	N/A
Q3 FY2024Period end 2024-09-30	−$150.50M	+15.59%	-250.82%
Q2 FY2024Period end 2024-06-30	−$178.30M	-18.87%	-194.71%
Q1 FY2024Period end 2024-03-31	−$150.00M	N/A	-49.55%
Q4 FY2023Period end 2023-12-31	$200.00K	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2023Period end 2023-09-30	−$42.90M	+29.09%	-3.13%
Q2 FY2023Period end 2023-06-30	−$60.50M	+39.68%	-142.97%
Q1 FY2023Period end 2023-03-31	−$100.30M	-159.17%	-24.75%
Q4 FY2022Period end 2022-12-31	−$38.70M	+6.97%	+49.94%
Q3 FY2022Period end 2022-09-30	−$41.60M	-67.07%	+30.08%
Q2 FY2022Period end 2022-06-30	−$24.90M	+69.03%	-66.00%
Q1 FY2022Period end 2022-03-31	−$80.40M	-4.01%	-704.00%
Q4 FY2021Period end 2021-12-31	−$77.30M	-29.92%	N/A
Q3 FY2021Period end 2021-09-30	−$59.50M	-296.67%	N/A
Q2 FY2021Period end 2021-06-30	−$15.00M	-50.00%	N/A
Q1 FY2021Period end 2021-03-31	−$10.00M	N/A	+62.12%
Q4 FY2020Period end 2020-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2020Period end 2020-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2020Period end 2020-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2020Period end 2020-03-31	−$26.40M	+93.49%	-153.85%
Q4 FY2019Period end 2019-12-31	−$405.40M	-1701.78%	-1927.00%
Q3 FY2019Period end 2019-09-30	−$22.50M	N/A	+38.36%
Q2 FY2019Period end 2019-06-30	−$1.60M	+84.62%	+96.86%
Q1 FY2019Period end 2019-03-31	−$10.40M	+48.00%	N/A
Q4 FY2018Period end 2018-12-31	−$20.00M	+45.21%	N/A
Q3 FY2018Period end 2018-09-30	−$36.50M	+28.43%	N/A
Q2 FY2018Period end 2018-06-30	−$51.00M	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2018Period end 2018-03-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2017Period end 2017-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2017Period end 2017-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2017Period end 2017-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2017Period end 2017-03-31	−$200.00K	+96.23%	+96.72%
Q4 FY2016Period end 2016-12-31	−$5.30M	+69.54%	N/A
Q3 FY2016Period end 2016-09-30	−$17.40M	+42.19%	N/A
Q2 FY2016Period end 2016-06-30	−$30.10M	-393.44%	N/A
Q1 FY2016Period end 2016-03-31	−$6.10M	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2015Period end 2015-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2015Period end 2015-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2015Period end 2015-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2015Period end 2015-03-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2014Period end 2014-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2014Period end 2014-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2014Period end 2014-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2014Period end 2014-03-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2013Period end 2013-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2013Period end 2013-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2013Period end 2013-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2013Period end 2013-03-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2012Period end 2012-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2012Period end 2012-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2012Period end 2012-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2012Period end 2012-03-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2011Period end 2011-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2011Period end 2011-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q2 FY2011Period end 2011-06-30	$0	N/A	N/A
Q1 FY2011Period end 2011-03-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q4 FY2010Period end 2010-12-31	$0	N/A	N/A
Q3 FY2010Period end 2010-09-30	$0	N/A	N/A

Growth uses unique fiscal quarters. Missing or ambiguous prior periods render N/A.

Data as of June 30, 2026