Equitable
EQHEquitable has retired 47.6% of its shares since 2018, from 521,187,924 to 273,035,157.
47.6%retired since 2018
32.5%last 5 years
4.7%last 12 months
273Mshares today
Equitable has retired 47.6% of its shares since 2018, from 521,187,924 to 273,035,157.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019-03-07 | 521,187,924 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-25 | 463,711,392 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-22 | 435,544,693 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-20 | 389,557,860 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-17 | 361,809,749 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-22 | 329,710,752 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-20 | 307,819,522 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-23 | 280,347,841 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Equitable on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Equitable has 4.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 273,035,157 as of August 4, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 32.5%.
Net of every new share it issued, Equitable has 248.2 million fewer shares than at its 2018 peak. That is 47.6% of the company.
273,035,157 shares, as of August 4, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2018 peak it had 521,187,924.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Equitable stock in 2018 owns 1.9 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Equitable ranks No. 69 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Toll Brothers (48.0%), Motorola Solutions (48.0%), McDonald's (47.6%), Tapestry (47.5%).
Every answer is computed from Equitable's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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