General Electric

Name: General Electric (GE) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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General Electric has retired 22.2% of its shares since 2009, from 1,333,727,625 to 1,037,562,513.

22.2%retired since 2009

5.5%last 5 years

1.6%last 12 months

1Bshares today

At $313.83 a share, a market value of $325.6B. FCF yield 2.6%, P/E 36.3, trailing twelve months to June 2026.

Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 1,235,742,0432026-06-30, 1,037,562,513

A share bought in 1999

1.2× more of General Electric today, without buying another share. It was one of 1,235,742,042 shares then. It is one of 1,037,562,513 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	2000-03-05	1,235,742,043	10-K405	cover page
2000	2001-03-04	1,241,616,090	10-K	cover page
2001	2002-03-03	1,241,953,711	10-K405	cover page
2002	2003-02-28	1,249,149,030	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-02-13	1,259,833,625	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-02-10	1,324,989,922	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-02-10	1,302,928,096	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-02-09	1,285,391,250	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-02-01	1,248,208,625	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-12-31	1,317,112,125	10-K
2009	2009-12-31	1,333,727,625	10-K
2010	2011-01-31	1,327,311,125	10-K
2011	2012-02-03	1,322,657,125	10-K
2012	2013-02-01	1,299,783,875	10-K
2013	2014-02-01	1,254,141,250	10-K
2014	2014-12-31	1,258,113,686	10-K
2015	2016-01-31	1,166,325,916	10-K
2016	2016-12-31	1,092,826,750	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	1,085,322,000	10-K
2018	2019-01-31	1,088,135,012	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	1,092,529,000	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	1,095,992,750	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	1,099,321,882	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	1,089,286,553	10-K
2023	2024-01-15	1,088,334,304	10-K
2024	2025-01-15	1,073,290,505	10-K
2025	2026-01-15	1,048,813,612	10-K

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

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General Electric buybacks, answered

Is General Electric buying back its stock?

Yes. General Electric has 1.6% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 1,037,562,513 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 5.5%.

How many shares has General Electric bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, General Electric has 296.2 million fewer shares than at its 2009 peak. That is 22.2% of the company.

How many shares does General Electric have outstanding?

1,037,562,513 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2009 peak it had 1,333,727,625.

What do General Electric's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held General Electric stock in 2009 owns 1.3 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 General Electric compare with other cannibal stocks?

General Electric ranks No. 349 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: BWX Technologies (22.5%), CTS (22.3%), Acushnet (22.2%), Genuine Parts (22.0%).

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