Corteva has retired 11.0% of its shares since 2019, from 749,403,000 to 667,196,000.
At $12.88 a share, a market value of $8.6B. P/E 8.5, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2020-02-07 | 749,403,000 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-04 | 744,062,000 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-03 | 727,021,000 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-02 | 712,823,000 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-01 | 701,783,000 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-07 | 685,556,000 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-05 | 672,524,000 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Corteva on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Corteva has 1.3% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 667,196,000 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 8.5%.
Net of every new share it issued, Corteva has 82.2 million fewer shares than at its 2019 peak. That is 11.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2020 alone it bought back about 78.0 million shares, while the count fell by 76.9 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
667,196,000 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2019 peak it had 749,403,000.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Corteva stock in 2019 owns 1.1 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Corteva ranks No. 459 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: RTX (11.3%), Diodes (11.0%), Stanley Black & Decker (10.9%), Ufp Industries (10.9%).
Every answer is computed from Corteva's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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