Brighthouse Financial
BHFBrighthouse Financial has retired 52.0% of its shares since 2017, from 119,773,106 to 57,511,563.
52.0%retired since 2017
27.9%last 5 years
-0.6%last 12 months
58Mshares today
Brighthouse Financial has retired 52.0% of its shares since 2017, from 119,773,106 to 57,511,563.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2018-03-15 | 119,773,106 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-22 | 116,670,471 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-21 | 105,096,065 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-22 | 87,378,950 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-18 | 76,630,436 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-17 | 67,696,800 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-16 | 62,882,143 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-21 | 58,060,494 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-20 | 57,184,099 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Brighthouse Financial on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. Brighthouse Financial has 0.6% more shares outstanding than twelve months ago. Whatever it bought back did not cover the new shares it issued. Over five years the share count is down 27.9%.
Net of every new share it issued, Brighthouse Financial has 62.3 million fewer shares than at its 2017 peak. That is 52.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2018 alone it bought back about 66.9 million shares, while the count fell by 59.2 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
57,511,563 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2017 peak it had 119,773,106.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Brighthouse Financial stock in 2017 owns 2.1 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Brighthouse Financial ranks No. 52 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Covista (52.3%), Dominos Pizza (52.3%), Universal Health Services (51.9%), Louisiana-Pacific (51.8%).
Every answer is computed from Brighthouse Financial's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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