Dycom Industries (DY) Stock Buybacks: 38.3% of Shares Retired Since 2005

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

1999, 38,532,6922026-08-24, 30,160,957

A share bought in 1999

1.3× more of Dycom Industries today, without buying another share. It was one of 38,532,691 shares then. It is one of 30,160,957 now.

Every filing we read28 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-09-28	38,532,692	10-K	cover page
2000	2000-09-22	42,040,193	10-K405	cover page
2001	2001-09-28	42,925,293	10-K	cover page
2002	2002-09-27	47,869,254	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-09-26	48,057,149	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-10-05	48,607,862	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-01-29	48,868,644	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-01-28	40,613,758	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-01-27	41,005,106	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-01-26	39,352,020	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-01-24	39,000,071	10-K	cover page
2010	2010-09-02	38,305,239	10-K	cover page
2011	2011-07-30	33,487,640	10-K
2012	2012-08-29	33,609,200	10-K
2013	2013-09-06	33,295,803	10-K
2014	2014-09-05	34,000,148	10-K
2015	2015-09-01	33,236,463	10-K
2016	2016-08-29	31,425,887	10-K
2017	2017-08-30	31,089,555	10-K
2018	2018-01-27	31,185,669	10-K
2019	2019-02-28	31,441,024	10-K
2020	2020-02-24	31,585,403	10-K
2021	2021-03-01	30,615,908	10-K
2022	2022-03-01	29,613,477	10-K
2023	2023-02-28	29,355,347	10-K
2024	2024-02-27	29,091,670	10-K
2025	2025-02-25	28,979,138	10-K
2026	2026-03-03	29,970,067	10-K

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

Dycom Industries buybacks, answered

Is Dycom Industries buying back its stock?

Not on a net basis. Dycom Industries has 4.2% 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 down 0.1%.

How many shares has Dycom Industries bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Dycom Industries has 18.7 million fewer shares than at its 2005 peak. That is 38.3% of the company.

How many shares does Dycom Industries have outstanding?

30,160,957 shares, as of August 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2005 peak it had 48,868,644.

What do Dycom Industries' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Dycom Industries stock in 2005 owns 1.6 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 Dycom Industries compare with other cannibal stocks?

Dycom Industries ranks No. 189 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Federated Hermes (38.4%), Xerox (38.3%), Innoviva (38.1%), General Dynamics (37.8%).

Every answer is computed from Dycom Industries' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Insider buying, last 12 months

Sabater Carmen MDirector2026-09-23, 350 shares at $280.62 $98K total

Peyovich Daniel SPresident & CEO2026-09-09, 850 shares at $296.76 $252K total

Fallon David JosephDirector2026-09-01, 700 shares at $286.92 $201K total

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