Clearwater Paper
CLWClearwater Paper has retired 29.8% of its shares since 2012, from 22,987,213 to 16,127,764.
29.8%retired since 2012
3.4%last 5 years
-0.6%last 12 months
16Mshares today
Clearwater Paper has retired 29.8% of its shares since 2012, from 22,987,213 to 16,127,764.
Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 2009-03-05 | 22,709,084 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2010-02-12 | 22,953,594 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 22,947,400 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2011 | 2012-02-10 | 22,831,506 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-11 | 22,987,213 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-14 | 20,912,248 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-20 | 19,119,472 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-17 | 17,447,155 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-16 | 16,463,862 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-16 | 16,447,898 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-03-11 | 16,515,156 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-03-05 | 16,525,788 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-23 | 16,604,718 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-14 | 16,692,540 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-12 | 16,761,869 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-19 | 16,483,898 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-20 | 16,175,161 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-17 | 16,038,485 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Clearwater Paper on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. Clearwater Paper has 0.6% more shares outstanding than twelve months ago. Whatever it bought back did not cover the new shares it issued. Over five years the share count is down 3.4%.
Net of every new share it issued, Clearwater Paper has 6.9 million fewer shares than at its 2012 peak. That is 29.8% of the company.
16,127,764 shares, as of July 27, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2012 peak it had 22,987,213.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Clearwater Paper stock in 2012 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.
Clearwater Paper ranks No. 173 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: PayPal (30.0%), Factset Research Systems (29.9%), NCR Voyix (29.6%), Humana (29.5%).
Every answer is computed from Clearwater Paper's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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