Brown-Forman
BF-BBrown-Forman has retired 14.1% of its shares since 2013, from 534,267,500 to 458,864,265.
14.1%retired since 2013
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n/a%last 12 months
459Mshares today
Brown-Forman has retired 14.1% of its shares since 2013, from 534,267,500 to 458,864,265.
Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2013-04-30 | 534,267,500 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2014-04-30 | 533,637,500 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-04-30 | 521,749,000 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-04-30 | 494,353,000 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-04-30 | 480,106,000 | 10-K/A | |
| 2018 | 2018-04-30 | 481,001,000 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-04-30 | 477,172,000 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-04-30 | 478,209,000 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-04-30 | 478,729,000 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-04-30 | 479,020,000 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-04-30 | 479,316,000 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-04-30 | 472,600,000 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-04-30 | 472,669,000 | 10-K | |
| 2026 | 2026-04-30 | 466,335,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
Source: all 10-K filings of Brown-Forman on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Net of every new share it issued, Brown-Forman has 75.4 million fewer shares than at its 2013 peak. That is 14.1% of the company.
458,864,265 shares, as of August 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2013 peak it had 534,267,500.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Brown-Forman stock in 2013 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.
Brown-Forman ranks No. 242 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Generac (14.6%), Woodward (14.3%), Marsh & Mclennan Companies (14.0%), Align Technology (13.1%).
Every answer is computed from Brown-Forman's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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