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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance

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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has retired 16.8% of its shares since 2019, from 154,040,547 to 128,212,093.

16.8%retired since 2019
8.4%last 5 years
7.7%last 12 months
128Mshares today

At $6.38 a share, a market value of $818.0M. P/E 6.2, trailing twelve months to June 2026.

Shares outstanding, 2016 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
154M shares, 2019128M201620182020202220242026
2016, 91,621,2742026-08-07, 128,212,093
A share bought in 2018
1.0× more of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance today, without buying another share. It was one of 134,287,398 shares then. It is one of 128,212,093 now.
Every filing we read10 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
20162017-02-2791,621,27410-K
20172018-02-13107,467,23110-K
20182019-02-12134,287,39810-K
20192020-02-12154,040,54710-K
20202021-02-09139,848,87510-K
20212022-02-07140,541,40910-K
20222023-02-07141,266,03910-K
20232024-02-05142,096,71510-K
20242025-02-07138,871,18810-K
20252026-02-09139,598,98310-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

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What the buybacks cost, fiscal 2020 to 2024cash flow statement against share count
$169Mspent on buybacks
15Mfewer shares outstanding
5.0%buyback yield, last fiscal year’s spend on today’s market value

Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $6.38.

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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance buybacks, answered

Is Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance buying back its stock?

Yes. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has 7.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 128,212,093 as of August 7, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 8.4%.

How many shares has Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has 25.8 million fewer shares than at its 2019 peak. That is 16.8% of the company.

How many shares does Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance have outstanding?

128,212,093 shares, as of August 7, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2019 peak it had 154,040,547.

What do Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance stock in 2019 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.

How does Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance compare with other cannibal stocks?

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance ranks No. 407 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: NOV (16.8%), YETI (16.8%), Burlington Stores (16.5%), Edwards Lifesciences (16.4%).

Every answer is computed from Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Insider buying, last 12 months

No open-market purchases reported in the last 12 months.

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