Elevance Health (ELV) Stock Buybacks: 67.0% of Shares Retired Since 2005

Name: Elevance Health (ELV) shares outstanding since 2005, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 2005 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2005, 657,005,9002026-07-10, 216,869,290

A share bought in 2005

3.0× more of Elevance Health today, without buying another share. It was one of 657,005,900 shares then. It is one of 216,869,290 now.

Every filing we read21 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2005	2006-02-15	657,005,900	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-02-12	612,428,063	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-02-12	541,939,848	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-12-31	503,230,575	10-K
2009	2010-02-10	443,930,532	10-K
2010	2011-02-09	375,511,311	10-K
2011	2012-02-09	334,748,569	10-K
2012	2012-12-31	304,715,144	10-K
2013	2014-02-07	282,459,121	10-K
2014	2015-02-05	266,787,463	10-K
2015	2016-02-04	261,351,781	10-K
2016	2017-02-10	264,378,577	10-K
2017	2018-02-09	255,721,900	10-K
2018	2019-02-07	257,011,928	10-K
2019	2020-02-06	252,329,919	10-K
2020	2021-02-04	244,905,689	10-K
2021	2022-02-03	241,304,369	10-K
2022	2023-02-01	237,457,776	10-K
2023	2024-02-01	232,668,735	10-K
2024	2025-02-01	227,351,871	10-K
2025	2026-02-01	220,704,667	10-K

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

Elevance Health buybacks, answered

Is Elevance Health buying back its stock?

Yes. Elevance Health has 2.4% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 216,869,290 as of July 10, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 10.6%.

How many shares has Elevance Health bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Elevance Health has 440.1 million fewer shares than at its 2005 peak. That is 67.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2007 alone it bought back about 354.4 million shares, while the count fell by 325.1 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Elevance Health have outstanding?

216,869,290 shares, as of July 10, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2005 peak it had 657,005,900.

What do Elevance Health's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Elevance Health stock in 2005 owns 3.0 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 Elevance Health compare with other cannibal stocks?

Elevance Health ranks No. 14 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: eBay (68.4%), Allstate (67.4%), Loews (65.7%), Ameriprise (65.4%).

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