Alliancebernstein Holding has retired 18.7% of its shares since 2023, from 114,436,091 to 93,075,219.
At $34.86 a share, a market value of $3.2B. P/E 10.4, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000-03-01 | 71,855,296 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2000 | 2001-03-01 | 73,765,597 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2001 | 2002-03-01 | 75,220,955 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2002 | 2003-03-03 | 76,817,850 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2003 | 2004-02-01 | 79,002,779 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2005-02-01 | 80,589,991 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2006-01-31 | 83,613,491 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2007-01-31 | 85,919,404 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2008-01-31 | 100,000,000 | 10-K | scale corrected, cover page |
| 2008 | 2009-02-02 | 100,000,000 | 10-K | scale corrected, cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-12-31 | 100,000,000 | 10-K | scale corrected, cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 105,086,799 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2011-12-31 | 105,173,342 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-12-31 | 105,173,342 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2013-12-31 | 96,028,494 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2014-12-31 | 100,756,999 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-12-31 | 100,044,485 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-12-31 | 96,652,190 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-12-31 | 96,461,989 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-12-31 | 96,658,278 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-12-31 | 98,192,098 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-12-31 | 98,322,942 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-12-31 | 99,271,727 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-12-31 | 113,801,097 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-12-31 | 114,436,091 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-12-31 | 110,530,329 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-12-31 | 92,284,367 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Alliancebernstein Holding on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. Alliancebernstein Holding has 2.3% more shares outstanding than twelve months ago. Whatever it bought back did not cover the new shares it issued. Over five years the share count is down 5.8%.
Net of every new share it issued, Alliancebernstein Holding has 21.4 million fewer shares than at its 2023 peak. That is 18.7% of the company.
93,075,219 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2023 peak it had 114,436,091.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Alliancebernstein Holding stock in 2023 owns 1.2 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Alliancebernstein Holding ranks No. 386 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Broadridge Financial Solutions (18.8%), Dorman Products (18.7%), Sunstone Hotel Investors (18.5%), Ingevity (18.4%).
Every answer is computed from Alliancebernstein Holding's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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