Belden (BDC) Stock Buybacks: 17.3% of Shares Retired Since 2010

Name: Belden (BDC) shares outstanding since 2004, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 2004 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2004, 47,002,8012026-07-23, 39,078,191

A share bought in 2004

1.2× more of Belden today, without buying another share. It was one of 47,002,801 shares then. It is one of 39,078,191 now.

Every filing we read22 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2004	2005-03-01	47,002,801	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-03-01	42,633,092	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-02-22	44,609,213	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-02-24	44,127,414	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-02-25	46,568,676	10-K	cover page
2009	2010-02-19	46,682,691	10-K	cover page
2010	2011-02-18	47,237,570	10-K
2011	2012-02-21	45,966,481	10-K
2012	2013-02-19	44,517,866	10-K
2013	2014-02-18	43,474,784	10-K
2014	2015-02-17	42,517,178	10-K
2015	2016-02-23	41,987,913	10-K
2016	2017-02-14	42,182,613	10-K
2017	2018-02-09	41,930,562	10-K
2018	2019-02-15	39,399,412	10-K
2019	2020-02-05	45,459,726	10-K
2020	2021-02-10	44,657,019	10-K
2021	2022-02-09	44,991,811	10-K
2022	2023-02-17	42,895,630	10-K
2023	2024-02-07	41,085,542	10-K
2024	2025-02-05	40,269,390	10-K
2025	2026-02-11	38,748,995	10-K

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

Belden buybacks, answered

Is Belden buying back its stock?

Yes. Belden has 0.6% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 39,078,191 as of July 23, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 13.0%.

How many shares has Belden bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Belden has 8.2 million fewer shares than at its 2010 peak. That is 17.3% of the company.

How many shares does Belden have outstanding?

39,078,191 shares, as of July 23, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2010 peak it had 47,237,570.

What do Belden's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Belden stock in 2010 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 Belden compare with other cannibal stocks?

Belden ranks No. 399 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Salesforce (17.7%), Zoetis (17.5%), Chubb (17.2%), Whirlpool (17.2%).

Every answer is computed from Belden'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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