CTS
CTSCTS has retired 22.3% of its shares since 2004, from 36,734,828 to 28,556,195.
22.3%retired since 2004
11.4%last 5 years
1.7%last 12 months
29Mshares today
CTS has retired 22.3% of its shares since 2004, from 36,734,828 to 28,556,195.
Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000-03-22 | 24,926,321 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2000 | 2001-03-08 | 27,783,049 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2001 | 2002-03-14 | 33,053,386 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2002 | 2003-02-11 | 34,111,810 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2003 | 2003-06-27 | 36,071,509 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2004-06-25 | 36,734,828 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2005-07-01 | 35,877,635 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2006-07-02 | 35,884,265 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-07-01 | 33,735,419 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-06-29 | 33,747,763 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-06-26 | 33,968,081 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 34,090,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2011 | 2012-02-20 | 34,198,889 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-14 | 33,610,806 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-27 | 33,715,693 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-18 | 33,443,286 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-19 | 32,575,154 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-21 | 32,762,494 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-20 | 32,938,466 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-12-31 | 32,750,727 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-18 | 32,433,391 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-19 | 32,348,383 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-22 | 32,152,367 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-17 | 31,668,025 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-16 | 30,789,099 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-21 | 30,041,311 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-17 | 28,695,710 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of CTS 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 $54.95.
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Yes. CTS has 1.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 28,556,195 as of July 21, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 11.4%.
Net of every new share it issued, CTS has 8.2 million fewer shares than at its 2004 peak. That is 22.3% of the company. Since fiscal 2011 alone it bought back about 9.2 million shares, while the count fell by 5.6 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
28,556,195 shares, as of July 21, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2004 peak it had 36,734,828.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held CTS stock in 2004 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.
CTS ranks No. 348 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Jackson Financial (22.5%), BWX Technologies (22.5%), General Electric (22.2%), Acushnet (22.2%).
Every answer is computed from CTS's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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