Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Stock Buybacks: 58.9% of Shares Retired Since 1999

Name: Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 103,246,2362026-08-28, 42,434,377

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

A share bought in 1999

2.4× more of Abercrombie & Fitch today, without buying another share. It was one of 103,246,236 shares then. It is one of 42,434,377 now.

Every filing we read28 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-04-01	103,246,236	10-K405	cover page
2000	2000-03-31	102,029,782	10-K	cover page
2001	2001-04-06	99,082,609	10-K405	cover page
2002	2002-03-28	99,035,648	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-03-27	97,773,670	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-03-26	94,445,669	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-04-01	86,252,527	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-04-01	87,958,588	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-03-29	87,691,478	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-03-26	86,180,344	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-03-20	87,836,222	10-K	cover page
2010	2011-01-29	87,846,000	10-K	scale corrected
2011	2011-01-29	88,061,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2012	2012-03-16	84,723,859	10-K
2013	2013-03-22	78,166,993	10-K
2014	2014-03-21	73,403,751	10-K
2015	2015-03-26	69,548,066	10-K
2016	2016-03-23	67,585,850	10-K
2017	2017-03-22	67,985,481	10-K
2018	2018-03-28	68,032,248	10-K
2019	2019-03-27	66,606,436	10-K
2020	2020-03-25	61,597,673	10-K
2021	2021-03-24	62,112,126	10-K
2022	2022-03-25	50,625,727	10-K
2023	2023-03-24	49,218,719	10-K
2024	2024-04-01	51,027,429	10-K
2025	2025-03-28	48,869,057	10-K
2026	2026-03-20	44,924,473	10-K

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

Abercrombie & Fitch buybacks, answered

Is Abercrombie & Fitch buying back its stock?

Yes. Abercrombie & Fitch has 9.8% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 42,434,377 as of August 28, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 28.2%.

How many shares has Abercrombie & Fitch bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Abercrombie & Fitch has 60.8 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 58.9% of the company.

How many shares does Abercrombie & Fitch have outstanding?

42,434,377 shares, as of August 28, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 103,246,236.

What do Abercrombie & Fitch's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Abercrombie & Fitch stock in 1999 owns 2.4 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 Abercrombie & Fitch compare with other cannibal stocks?

Abercrombie & Fitch ranks No. 19 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Masco (59.6%), Alpha Pro Tech (59.4%), Arrow Electronics (58.6%), Western Union (58.4%).

Every answer is computed from Abercrombie & Fitch's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

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