HCA Healthcare
HCAHCA Healthcare has retired 51.2% of its shares since 2012, from 443,609,800 to 216,501,500.
51.2%retired since 2012
30.4%last 5 years
5.1%last 12 months
217Mshares today
HCA Healthcare has retired 51.2% of its shares since 2012, from 443,609,800 to 216,501,500.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 427,458,800 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-01-31 | 437,618,000 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-01-31 | 443,609,800 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 440,512,800 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-01-31 | 420,576,500 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-31 | 396,958,400 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-31 | 370,153,000 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 349,903,700 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 342,376,700 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 338,427,300 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-31 | 339,917,500 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-31 | 303,600,000 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-01-31 | 276,966,400 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-01-31 | 264,498,700 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 248,341,900 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-31 | 223,622,200 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of HCA Healthcare on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. HCA Healthcare has 5.1% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 216,501,500 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 30.4%.
Net of every new share it issued, HCA Healthcare has 227.1 million fewer shares than at its 2012 peak. That is 51.2% of the company. Since fiscal 2013 alone it bought back about 285.5 million shares, while the count fell by 224.0 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
216,501,500 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2012 peak it had 443,609,800.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held HCA Healthcare stock in 2012 owns 2.0 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
HCA Healthcare ranks No. 58 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: PulteGroup (51.5%), Group 1 Automotive (51.3%), Sherwin-Williams (51.2%), Lear (50.9%).
Every answer is computed from HCA Healthcare's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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