BNY (BNY) Stock Buybacks: 45.4% of Shares Retired Since 2010

Name: BNY (BNY) shares outstanding since 2009, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 2009 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2009, 1,208,199,5412026-06-30, 678,504,142

A share bought in 2009

1.8× more of BNY today, without buying another share. It was one of 1,208,199,541 shares then. It is one of 678,504,142 now.

Every filing we read17 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2009	2010-01-31	1,208,199,541	10-K
2010	2011-01-31	1,241,829,226	10-K
2011	2012-01-31	1,204,793,331	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	1,161,951,953	10-K
2013	2014-01-31	1,135,050,512	10-K
2014	2015-01-31	1,113,892,372	10-K
2015	2016-01-31	1,075,800,941	10-K
2016	2017-01-31	1,037,455,967	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	1,009,749,214	10-K
2018	2019-01-31	954,548,741	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	890,210,117	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	878,735,187	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	804,494,791	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	804,200,938	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	754,437,391	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	716,320,652	10-K
2025	2026-01-31	686,907,398	10-K

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

BNY buybacks, answered

Is BNY buying back its stock?

Yes. BNY has 2.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 678,504,142 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 17.8%.

How many shares has BNY bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, BNY has 563.3 million fewer shares than at its 2010 peak. That is 45.4% of the company. Since fiscal 2011 alone it bought back about 722.6 million shares, while the count fell by 526.3 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does BNY have outstanding?

678,504,142 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2010 peak it had 1,241,829,226.

What do BNY's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held BNY stock in 2010 owns 1.8 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 BNY compare with other cannibal stocks?

BNY ranks No. 86 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Deere & (45.6%), General Motors (45.5%), State Street (45.3%), Corning (45.3%).

Every answer is computed from BNY's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.