Alaska Air Group (ALK) Stock Buybacks: 30.8% of Shares Retired Since 2006

Name: Alaska Air Group (ALK) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 105,439,1802026-07-31, 111,603,120

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

A share bought in 2005

1.2× more of Alaska Air Group today, without buying another share. It was one of 133,816,584 shares then. It is one of 111,603,120 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-12-31	105,439,180	10-K405	cover page
2000	2000-12-31	105,616,216	10-K405	cover page
2001	2001-12-31	105,915,364	10-K405	cover page
2002	2002-12-31	106,067,848	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-12-31	106,774,108	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-12-31	108,504,080	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-12-31	133,816,584	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-12-31	161,174,756	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-12-31	152,202,720	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-01-31	145,178,096	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-12-31	143,260,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2010	2011-01-31	143,326,172	10-K	scale corrected
2011	2012-01-31	141,812,808	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	140,683,598	10-K
2013	2014-01-31	137,374,506	10-K
2014	2015-01-31	131,284,654	10-K
2015	2016-01-31	124,729,056	10-K
2016	2017-02-22	123,468,367	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	122,996,587	10-K
2018	2019-01-31	123,123,710	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	122,913,010	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	124,226,396	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	125,912,426	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	127,542,279	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	126,048,946	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	123,078,168	10-K
2025	2026-01-31	114,641,450	10-K

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

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Alaska Air Group buybacks, answered

Is Alaska Air Group buying back its stock?

Yes. Alaska Air Group has 3.8% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 111,603,120 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 10.9%.

How many shares has Alaska Air Group bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Alaska Air Group has 49.6 million fewer shares than at its 2006 peak. That is 30.8% of the company.

How many shares does Alaska Air Group have outstanding?

111,603,120 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2006 peak it had 161,174,756.

What do Alaska Air Group's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Alaska Air Group stock in 2006 owns 1.4 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 Alaska Air Group compare with other cannibal stocks?

Alaska Air Group ranks No. 170 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Colgate-Palmolive (31.0%), Ziff Davis (30.9%), PayPal (30.0%), Factset Research Systems (29.9%).

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

Insider buying, last 12 months

MINICUCCI BENITODirector; CEO AND PRESIDENT2026-08-20, 25,000 shares at $40.06 $1.0M total

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