Crocs
CROXCrocs has retired 53.2% of its shares since 2013, from 102,339,832 to 47,945,075.
53.2%retired since 2013
18.5%last 5 years
7.6%last 12 months
48Mshares today
Crocs has retired 53.2% of its shares since 2013, from 102,339,832 to 47,945,075.
As converted. Blackstone's convertible preferred, issued January 2014, was partly bought back and partly converted in 2018. We count it as shares from issue, so the true peak is 2014. The chart and the filing table include those share equivalents while the preferred was outstanding. Sources: filing 1, filing 2, filing 3.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 2008-01-31 | 82,440,332 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2009-01-31 | 83,019,495 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2010-01-31 | 85,670,762 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 88,065,859 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-01-31 | 89,838,840 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-12-31 | 88,662,845 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 102,339,832 | 10-K | as converted, 88,546,729 common |
| 2014 | 2015-01-30 | 91,627,597 | 10-K | as converted, 77,834,494 common |
| 2015 | 2016-02-22 | 86,803,103 | 10-K | as converted, 73,010,000 common |
| 2016 | 2017-02-22 | 87,484,004 | 10-K | as converted, 73,690,901 common |
| 2017 | 2018-02-20 | 82,623,923 | 10-K/A | as converted, 68,830,820 common |
| 2018 | 2019-02-20 | 73,336,332 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-20 | 68,268,347 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-16 | 65,439,867 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-09 | 58,353,973 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-09 | 61,751,732 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-08 | 60,498,530 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-06 | 56,056,159 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-05 | 50,233,596 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Crocs on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Crocs has 7.6% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 47,945,075 as of July 23, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 18.5%.
Net of every new share it issued, Crocs has 54.4 million fewer shares than at its 2013 peak. That is 53.2% of the company.
47,945,075 shares, as of July 23, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2013 peak it had 102,339,832.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Crocs stock in 2013 owns 2.1 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Crocs ranks No. 29 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Unum Group (54.4%), Valero Energy (53.7%), Spectrum Brands (52.9%), Primerica (52.6%).
Every answer is computed from Crocs' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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