Asbury Automotive Group (ABG) Stock Buybacks: 46.5% of Shares Retired Since 2006

Name: Asbury Automotive Group (ABG) shares outstanding since 2002, split adjusted
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Shares outstanding, 2002 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2002, 33,019,8762026-07-29, 17,951,917

Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.

A share bought in 2002

1.8× more of Asbury Automotive Group today, without buying another share. It was one of 33,019,876 shares then. It is one of 17,951,917 now.

Every filing we read24 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2002	2003-03-10	33,019,876	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-03-05	32,434,904	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-03-11	32,600,821	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-03-13	32,973,156	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-03-05	33,559,606	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-02-27	31,915,300	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-03-12	32,105,515	10-K	cover page
2009	2010-02-26	32,787,070	10-K	cover page
2010	2010-12-31	32,200,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2011	2012-02-21	30,600,003	10-K
2012	2013-02-19	31,185,990	10-K
2013	2014-02-21	30,849,989	10-K
2014	2015-02-20	27,541,122	10-K
2015	2016-02-18	24,733,854	10-K
2016	2017-02-22	21,146,186	10-K
2017	2018-02-26	20,913,251	10-K
2018	2019-02-27	19,499,144	10-K
2019	2020-02-28	19,278,564	10-K
2020	2021-02-26	19,328,753	10-K
2021	2022-02-28	23,187,817	10-K
2022	2023-02-23	21,687,409	10-K
2023	2024-02-27	20,404,121	10-K
2024	2025-02-24	19,645,447	10-K
2025	2026-02-18	19,257,920	10-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Asbury Automotive Group on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

Asbury Automotive Group buybacks, answered

Is Asbury Automotive Group buying back its stock?

Yes. Asbury Automotive Group has 7.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 17,951,917 as of July 29, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 7.2%.

How many shares has Asbury Automotive Group bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Asbury Automotive Group has 15.6 million fewer shares than at its 2006 peak. That is 46.5% of the company.

How many shares does Asbury Automotive Group have outstanding?

17,951,917 shares, as of July 29, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2006 peak it had 33,559,606.

What do Asbury Automotive Group's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Asbury Automotive Group stock in 2006 owns 1.9 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Asbury Automotive Group compare with other cannibal stocks?

Asbury Automotive Group ranks No. 77 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Dick's Sporting Goods (46.8%), Somnigroup International (46.6%), Citi Trends (46.5%), Avnet (46.3%).

Every answer is computed from Asbury Automotive Group's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Insider buying, last 12 months

DiSantis B. ChristopherDirector2026-05-20, 157 shares at $182.31 $29K total

DiSantis B. ChristopherDirector2026-03-10, 500 shares at $202.30 $101K total

Hult David WDirector; President & CEO2026-03-06, 5,000 shares at $205.34 $1.0M total

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