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Booking Holdings

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Booking Holdings has retired 42.4% of its shares since 2013, from 1,303,558,625 to 751,380,500.

42.4%retired since 2013
26.8%last 5 years
6.8%last 12 months
751Mshares today
Shares outstanding, 2000 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
a quarter gone 20211.3B shares, 2013751M200020052010201520202025
2000, 835,766,2762026-07-27, 751,380,500
A share bought in 2000
1.1× more of Booking Holdings today, without buying another share. It was one of 835,766,275 shares then. It is one of 751,380,500 now.
Every filing we read26 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
20002001-03-10835,766,27610-Kcover page
20012002-03-21956,260,41310-Kcover page
20022003-03-26937,371,45410-Kcover page
20032004-03-10942,252,77510-Kcover page
20042005-03-01979,447,45010-Kcover page
20052006-02-24992,750,00010-Kcover page
20062007-02-15939,634,32510-Kcover page
20072008-02-15961,810,27510-Kcover page
20082009-02-131,024,518,00010-Kcover page
20092010-02-101,139,528,55010-Kcover page
20102011-02-171,228,789,92510-K
20112012-02-171,244,971,52510-K
20122013-02-201,246,772,32510-K/A
20132014-02-131,303,558,62510-K
20142015-02-111,298,479,77510-K
20152016-02-091,240,414,87510-K
20162017-02-211,229,260,42510-K
20172018-02-201,207,214,80010-K
20182019-02-201,125,318,12510-K
20192020-02-191,026,545,35010-K
20202021-02-171,024,044,90010-K
20212022-02-161,022,192,55010-K
20222023-02-16941,209,32510-K
20232024-02-15854,275,67510-K
20242025-02-13820,380,02510-K
20252026-02-10791,833,65010-K

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

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Booking Holdings buybacks, answered

Is Booking Holdings buying back its stock?

Yes. Booking Holdings has 6.8% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 751,380,500 as of July 27, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 26.8%.

How many shares has Booking Holdings bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Booking Holdings has 552.2 million fewer shares than at its 2013 peak. That is 42.4% of the company. Since fiscal 2014 alone it bought back about 568.5 million shares, while the count fell by 547.1 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Booking Holdings have outstanding?

751,380,500 shares, as of July 27, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2013 peak it had 1,303,558,625.

What do Booking Holdings' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Booking Holdings stock in 2013 owns 1.7 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 Booking Holdings compare with other cannibal stocks?

Booking Holdings ranks No. 45 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: MetLife (43.4%), InterDigital (43.1%), Seneca Foods (42.3%), Garrett Motion (39.8%).

Every answer is computed from Booking Holdings' 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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