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

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

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/A	cover page
2000	2000-04-29	464,571,922	10-K	cover page
2001	2001-06-01	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	2008-03-01	439,900,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
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.

What the buybacks cost, since fiscal 2008cash flow statement against share count

$18.3Bspent on buybacks

270Mfewer shares outstanding

$68spent per share that actually disappeared

$2.3Bpaid in stock compensation over the same years

Part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. That part costs money and retires nothing, so the cost per share that disappeared is higher than the average price the company paid.

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