Aptiv has retired 34.1% of its shares since 2012, from 315,299,183 to 207,633,331.
As converted. The mandatory convertible preferred outstanding in 2021 converted into about 12.4 million ordinary shares in 2023. We count it as shares from the start. The chart and the filing table include those share equivalents while the preferred was outstanding. Sources: filing 1, filing 2.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013-02-01 | 315,299,183 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 306,389,149 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-01-30 | 290,279,017 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-29 | 277,533,669 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-27 | 269,561,837 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-26 | 265,839,794 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-25 | 260,034,563 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-24 | 255,288,240 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-29 | 282,392,474 | 10-K | as converted, 270,025,374 common |
| 2021 | 2022-01-28 | 282,881,240 | 10-K | as converted, 270,514,140 common |
| 2022 | 2023-02-03 | 283,316,679 | 10-K | as converted, 270,949,579 common |
| 2023 | 2024-02-02 | 279,036,041 | 10-K/A | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 229,446,368 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-30 | 212,748,401 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Aptiv on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Aptiv has 3.9% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 207,633,331 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 26.6%.
Net of every new share it issued, Aptiv has 107.7 million fewer shares than at its 2012 peak. That is 34.1% of the company. Since fiscal 2013 alone it bought back about 115.0 million shares, while the count fell by 98.8 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
207,633,331 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2012 peak it had 315,299,183.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Aptiv stock in 2012 owns 1.5 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Aptiv ranks No. 59 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Aon (36.3%), CNX Resources (35.8%), Alpha Metallurgical (31.6%), Academy Sports (29.3%).
Every answer is computed from Aptiv's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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