Citizens Financial Group has retired 22.8% of its shares since 2014, from 545,901,116 to 421,176,788.
At $63.36 a share, a market value of $26.7B. P/E 12.6, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2015-02-01 | 545,901,116 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-01 | 527,811,625 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-01 | 509,107,893 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-01 | 487,325,116 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-01 | 460,390,006 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-05 | 427,434,404 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-01 | 425,106,419 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-28 | 422,141,584 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-01-31 | 484,106,460 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-01 | 458,756,723 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-04 | 437,136,981 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-04 | 424,983,657 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Citizens Financial Group on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Read the full storyCash 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 $63.36.
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Yes. Citizens Financial Group has 1.9% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 421,176,788 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 1.2%.
Net of every new share it issued, Citizens Financial Group has 124.7 million fewer shares than at its 2014 peak. That is 22.8% of the company. Since fiscal 2015 alone it bought back about 207.7 million shares, while the count fell by 106.6 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
421,176,788 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2014 peak it had 545,901,116.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Citizens Financial Group stock in 2014 owns 1.3 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Citizens Financial Group ranks No. 341 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Curtiss Wright (23.1%), Zimmer Biomet (23.1%), PepsiCo (22.8%), Delta Air Lines (22.7%).
Every answer is computed from Citizens Financial Group's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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