Burlington Stores has retired 16.5% of its shares since 2015, from 75,254,682 to 62,815,195.
At $262.66 a share, a market value of $16.5B. P/E 23.1, trailing twelve months to August 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2014-03-19 | 73,686,524 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-03-13 | 75,254,682 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-02-27 | 72,072,840 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-02-25 | 70,218,617 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-03-02 | 67,728,992 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-03-01 | 67,076,918 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-02-28 | 65,892,508 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-02-26 | 66,385,163 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-02-26 | 66,491,659 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-02-25 | 64,973,669 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-03-02 | 63,919,382 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-03-01 | 63,204,621 | 10-K | |
| 2026 | 2026-02-28 | 62,687,426 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Burlington Stores on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $262.66.
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Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 62,815,195 as of August 1, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 5.9%.
Net of every new share it issued, Burlington Stores has 12.4 million fewer shares than at its 2015 peak. That is 16.5% of the company.
62,815,195 shares, as of August 1, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2015 peak it had 75,254,682.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Burlington Stores stock in 2015 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.
Burlington Stores ranks No. 408 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: YETI (16.8%), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (16.8%), Edwards Lifesciences (16.4%), Molina Healthcare (16.4%).
Every answer is computed from Burlington Stores' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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