First Bancorp has retired 30.0% of its shares since 2020, from 218,228,695 to 152,668,268.
At $27.37 a share, a market value of $4.2B. P/E 11.2, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2012-03-02 | 205,299,171 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-12-31 | 206,235,465 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-03-17 | 207,101,964 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-03-06 | 213,089,880 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-03-04 | 215,207,992 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-03-03 | 217,509,055 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-16 | 216,334,736 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-15 | 217,238,369 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-14 | 217,358,625 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-12 | 218,228,695 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-15 | 198,414,429 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-21 | 180,585,944 | 10-K/A | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-21 | 167,317,829 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-21 | 163,866,701 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-20 | 156,565,063 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of First Bancorp on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $27.37.
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Yes. First Bancorp has 3.3% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 152,668,268 as of August 3, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 25.8%.
Net of every new share it issued, First Bancorp has 65.6 million fewer shares than at its 2020 peak. That is 30.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2021 alone it bought back about 64.8 million shares, while the count fell by 45.7 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
152,668,268 shares, as of August 3, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2020 peak it had 218,228,695.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held First Bancorp stock in 2020 owns 1.4 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
First Bancorp ranks No. 266 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: IQVIA (30.2%), Euronet Worldwide (30.1%), PayPal (30.0%), Factset Research Systems (29.9%).
Every answer is computed from First Bancorp's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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