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Cigna

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Cigna has retired 29.0% of its shares since 2019, from 372,043,094 to 264,240,486.

29.0%retired since 2019
20.3%last 5 years
1.1%last 12 months
264Mshares today
Shares outstanding, 2019 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
a quarter gone 2023372M shares, 2019264M2020202220242026
2019, 372,043,0942026-07-24, 264,240,486
A share bought in 2019
1.4× more of Cigna today, without buying another share. It was one of 372,043,094 shares then. It is one of 264,240,486 now.
Every filing we read7 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
20192019-12-31372,043,09410-K
20202021-01-31351,845,60610-K
20212022-01-31320,953,24510-K
20222023-01-31297,059,97310-K
20232024-01-31292,355,02210-K
20242025-01-31273,678,46410-K
20252026-01-30263,528,27710-K

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

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Cigna buybacks, answered

Is Cigna buying back its stock?

Yes. Cigna has 1.1% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 264,240,486 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 20.3%.

How many shares has Cigna bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Cigna has 107.8 million fewer shares than at its 2019 peak. That is 29.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2020 alone it bought back about 125.1 million shares, while the count fell by 87.6 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Cigna have outstanding?

264,240,486 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2019 peak it had 372,043,094.

What do Cigna's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Cigna stock in 2019 owns 1.4 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 Cigna compare with other cannibal stocks?

Cigna ranks No. 62 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Alpha Metallurgical (31.6%), Academy Sports (29.3%), Ashland (26.7%), D.R. Horton (25.7%).

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

Insider buying, last 12 months

Cordani DavidDirector; Chairman & CEO2025-11-03, 4,134 shares at $241.88 $1000K total

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