Dillard's has retired 85.4% of its shares since 1999, from 106,923,648 to 15,655,000.
Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1999-03-31 | 106,923,648 | 10-K405 | cover page |
| 2000 | 2000-03-31 | 93,595,649 | 10-K405 | cover page |
| 2001 | 2001-03-30 | 85,022,829 | 10-K405 | cover page |
| 2002 | 2002-03-28 | 84,210,845 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2003 | 2003-02-28 | 84,757,661 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2004-02-28 | 83,490,998 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2005-07-30 | 79,294,362 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2006-07-29 | 80,142,475 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-08-04 | 75,166,276 | 10-K/A | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-08-02 | 73,454,489 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-08-01 | 73,909,290 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-01-30 | 73,784,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2011 | 2011-01-29 | 66,922,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2012 | 2012-01-28 | 53,515,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2013 | 2013-02-02 | 48,125,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2014 | 2014-02-01 | 45,586,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2015 | 2015-01-31 | 42,603,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2016 | 2016-01-30 | 39,005,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2017 | 2017-01-28 | 34,308,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2018 | 2018-02-03 | 29,487,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2019 | 2019-02-02 | 27,312,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2020 | 2020-02-01 | 25,364,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average |
| 2021 | 2021-01-30 | 22,697,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average, scale corrected |
| 2022 | 2022-01-29 | 20,592,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average, scale corrected |
| 2023 | 2023-01-28 | 17,549,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average, scale corrected |
| 2024 | 2024-02-03 | 16,517,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average, scale corrected |
| 2025 | 2025-02-01 | 16,120,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average, scale corrected |
| 2026 | 2026-01-31 | 15,655,000 | 10-K | fiscal-year average, scale corrected |
Source: all 10-K filings of Dillard's on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. That part costs money and retires nothing, so the cost per share that disappeared is higher than the average price the company paid.
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How Dillard's turned a department store that barely grew into a 23-bagger, and why the buybacks have now stopped.
74 million shares. Then 15. Then a $30 dividend.