Covista (CVSA) Stock Buybacks: 52.3% of Shares Retired Since 2008

Name: Covista (CVSA) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 69,421,1132026-07-31, 34,038,820

A share bought in 1999

2.0× more of Covista today, without buying another share. It was one of 69,421,113 shares then. It is one of 34,038,820 now.

Every filing we read28 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-09-01	69,421,113	10-K	cover page
2000	2000-09-01	69,699,074	10-K	cover page
2001	2001-09-04	69,787,382	10-K	cover page
2002	2002-09-03	69,922,793	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-09-02	70,038,841	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-08-02	70,337,137	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-09-01	70,542,424	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-09-01	70,806,625	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-08-15	71,096,607	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-08-15	71,412,130	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-08-17	71,164,789	10-K	cover page
2010	2010-06-30	71,030,000	10-K
2011	2011-06-30	68,423,122	10-K
2012	2012-08-24	64,123,380	10-K
2013	2013-08-27	62,978,000	10-K
2014	2014-08-20	63,703,000	10-K
2015	2015-08-20	63,513,000	10-K
2016	2016-08-18	62,354,000	10-K
2017	2017-08-17	62,076,000	10-K
2018	2018-08-16	59,931,000	10-K
2019	2019-08-20	54,923,000	10-K
2020	2020-08-11	51,876,303	10-K
2021	2021-08-12	49,620,608	10-K
2022	2022-08-04	45,204,117	10-K
2023	2023-08-04	41,543,730	10-K
2024	2024-07-31	37,689,832	10-K
2025	2025-07-31	35,955,712	10-K
2026	2026-07-31	34,038,820	10-K	cover page

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

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Covista buybacks, answered

Is Covista buying back its stock?

Yes. Covista has 6.3% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 34,038,820 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 31.6%.

How many shares has Covista bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Covista has 37.4 million fewer shares than at its 2008 peak. That is 52.3% of the company.

How many shares does Covista have outstanding?

34,038,820 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-K. At the 2008 peak it had 71,412,130.

What do Covista's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Covista stock in 2008 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.

How does Covista compare with other cannibal stocks?

Covista ranks No. 32 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Spectrum Brands (52.9%), Primerica (52.6%), Dominos Pizza (52.3%), Universal Health Services (51.9%).

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

Insider buying, last 12 months

MALAFRONTE MICHAEL WDirector; Other2026-03-11, 8,890 shares at $100.94 $897K total

MALAFRONTE MICHAEL WDirector; Other2026-03-10, 27,146 shares at $100.86 $2.7M total

MALAFRONTE MICHAEL WDirector; Other2026-03-03, 1,200 shares at $97.97 $118K total

Phelan Kenneth JDirector2025-11-05, 508 shares at $98.29 $50K total

MALAFRONTE MICHAEL WDirector; Other2025-11-04, 1,000 shares at $91.85 $92K total

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