Best Buy (BBY) Stock Buybacks: 57.3% of Shares Retired Since 2005

Name: Best Buy (BBY) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 460,447,8952026-09-02, 209,727,698

A share bought in 1999

2.2× more of Best Buy today, without buying another share. It was one of 460,447,895 shares then. It is one of 209,727,698 now.

Every filing we read28 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-04-30	460,447,895	10-K	cover page
2000	2000-04-29	464,571,922	10-K	cover page
2001	2001-05-04	471,109,050	10-K	cover page
2002	2002-05-10	480,852,596	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-05-02	483,364,887	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-04-03	488,005,500	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-04-25	491,679,000	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-04-24	485,671,000	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-04-30	479,304,000	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-04-25	411,795,260	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-02-28	413,684,000	10-K
2010	2010-04-26	421,899,790	10-K
2011	2011-04-20	389,520,245	10-K
2012	2012-04-26	342,198,524	10-K
2013	2013-02-02	338,276,000	10-K
2014	2014-03-24	347,043,619	10-K
2015	2015-03-23	352,185,626	10-K
2016	2016-03-21	323,347,681	10-K
2017	2017-03-20	309,110,840	10-K
2018	2018-03-29	282,713,593	10-K
2019	2019-02-02	265,702,588	10-K
2020	2020-03-18	256,971,220	10-K
2021	2021-03-18	250,044,876	10-K
2022	2022-03-16	225,227,756	10-K
2023	2023-03-15	218,045,737	10-K
2024	2024-03-13	215,381,395	10-K
2025	2025-03-17	211,369,657	10-K
2026	2026-03-16	209,112,577	10-K

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

Best Buy buybacks, answered

Is Best Buy buying back its stock?

Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 209,727,698 as of September 2, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 12.8%.

How many shares has Best Buy bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Best Buy has 282.0 million fewer shares than at its 2005 peak. That is 57.3% of the company.

How many shares does Best Buy have outstanding?

209,727,698 shares, as of September 2, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2005 peak it had 491,679,000.

What do Best Buy's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Best Buy stock in 2005 owns 2.3 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 Best Buy compare with other cannibal stocks?

Best Buy ranks No. 24 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Marathon Petroleum (58.3%), CF Industries (57.5%), Star Group (56.7%), Signet Jewelers (56.0%).

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

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