Delta Air Lines
DALDelta Air Lines has retired 22.7% of its shares since 2012, from 851,590,992 to 657,912,380.
22.7%retired since 2012
-2.8%last 5 years
-0.8%last 12 months
658Mshares today
Delta Air Lines has retired 22.7% of its shares since 2012, from 851,590,992 to 657,912,380.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2010-01-31 | 785,464,490 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2011-01-31 | 834,829,734 | 10-K/A | |
| 2011 | 2012-01-31 | 845,519,629 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-01-31 | 851,590,992 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 849,378,918 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-01-31 | 824,271,663 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-31 | 778,508,621 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-31 | 730,770,638 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 706,913,358 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 678,950,098 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 640,093,995 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-31 | 638,146,665 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-31 | 639,929,760 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-01-31 | 641,238,655 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-01-31 | 643,323,851 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 645,962,006 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-31 | 653,130,708 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Delta Air Lines on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. Delta Air Lines has 0.8% 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 up 2.8%.
Net of every new share it issued, Delta Air Lines has 193.7 million fewer shares than at its 2012 peak. That is 22.7% of the company.
657,912,380 shares, as of September 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2012 peak it had 851,590,992.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Delta Air Lines stock in 2012 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.
Delta Air Lines ranks No. 205 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Zimmer Biomet (23.1%), PepsiCo (22.8%), Skyworks Solutions (22.6%), Jackson Financial (22.5%).
Every answer is computed from Delta Air Lines' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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