As part of this plan, BBVA shareholders received on November 7 an interim gross dividend in cash of €0.32 per share against 2025 results, up 10 percent from 2024. This is the highest interim dividend in BBVA’s history: In total, the bank distributed €1.84 billion in cash to its shareholders.
Furthermore, BBVA plans to launch another significant share buyback program, once all necessary approvals and authorizations have been obtained.
Over €6 billion in share buybacks in four years
In this latest program, BBVA repurchased 54.3 million own shares, representing approximately 0.93 percent of its current share capital.
Since November 2021, BBVA has executed share buyback programs totaling €6.36 billion, equivalent to nearly 17% of its share capital.
The execution of the buyback programs reduces the number of outstanding shares through cancellation, positively impacting earnings per share (EPS). As such, while BBVA’s attributable profit rose by 31 percent in 2022, 21 percent in 2023, and 25 percent in 2024, EPS grew at even higher rates, with increases of 48 percent, 26 percent, and 27 percent, respectively.
This marks the third time BBVA has opted to execute share buybacks as part of its ordinary shareholder remuneration. The bank repurchased €422 million worth of shares charged to 2022 and €781 million to 2023.
In addition, BBVA has completed two other share buyback programs classified as extraordinary shareholder distributions: the first, which was carried out between 2021 and 2022, amounted to €3.16 billion—one of the largest in Europe at the time—and the second, in 2023, totaled €1 billion.