Globe Life (GL) Stock Buybacks: 73.7% of Shares Retired Since 1999

Name: Globe Life (GL) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 292,069,5682026-07-31, 76,849,447

A share bought in 1999

3.8× more of Globe Life today, without buying another share. It was one of 292,069,568 shares then. It is one of 76,849,447 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	2000-02-29	292,069,568	10-K	cover page
2000	2001-02-28	283,501,521	10-K	cover page
2001	2002-02-28	274,956,514	10-K	cover page
2002	2003-02-28	263,095,790	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-02-27	252,656,894	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-02-18	239,364,727	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-01-31	233,027,870	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-01-31	220,469,594	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-01-31	204,681,116	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-01-30	190,146,971	10-K	cover page
2009	2010-02-15	186,393,434	10-K
2010	2011-02-14	175,327,380	10-K
2011	2012-02-14	150,279,852	10-K
2012	2013-02-12	140,484,206	10-K
2013	2014-02-13	132,833,607	10-K
2014	2015-02-13	127,107,471	10-K
2015	2016-02-19	121,264,589	10-K
2016	2017-02-17	117,761,153	10-K
2017	2018-02-16	114,081,876	10-K
2018	2019-02-19	110,236,297	10-K
2019	2020-02-19	107,533,326	10-K
2020	2021-02-18	103,283,402	10-K
2021	2022-02-16	99,338,401	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	96,497,627	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	93,707,838	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	83,848,424	10-K
2025	2026-01-30	78,637,130	10-K

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

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Globe Life buybacks, answered

Is Globe Life buying back its stock?

Yes. Globe Life has 3.5% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 76,849,447 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 23.9%.

How many shares has Globe Life bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Globe Life has 215.2 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 73.7% of the company.

How many shares does Globe Life have outstanding?

76,849,447 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 292,069,568.

What do Globe Life's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Globe Life stock in 1999 owns 3.8 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 Globe Life compare with other cannibal stocks?

Globe Life ranks No. 4 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Dillard's (85.4%), White Mountains (78.0%), AIG (72.4%), NVR (72.0%).

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

Insider buying, last 12 months

No open-market purchases reported in the last 12 months.

The story

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