Home Depot (HD) Stock Buybacks: 57.5% of Shares Retired Since 2002

Name: Home Depot (HD) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 2,217,950,0562026-08-18, 997,689,626

A share bought in 1999

2.2× more of Home Depot today, without buying another share. It was one of 2,217,950,056 shares then. It is one of 997,689,626 now.

Every filing we read28 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-03-29	2,217,950,056	10-K405	cover page
2000	2000-04-03	2,308,809,562	10-K	cover page
2001	2001-04-02	2,327,253,241	10-K	cover page
2002	2002-04-01	2,350,050,699	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-04-01	2,293,783,938	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-04-01	2,241,907,929	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-04-01	2,158,678,829	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-03-28	2,117,846,411	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-03-26	1,969,535,236	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-03-24	1,690,034,627	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-02-01	1,696,000,000	10-K
2010	2010-03-22	1,693,341,736	10-K
2011	2011-03-14	1,622,070,458	10-K
2012	2012-03-14	1,523,263,533	10-K
2013	2013-03-11	1,485,517,485	10-K
2014	2014-03-10	1,381,350,137	10-K
2015	2015-03-06	1,307,394,094	10-K
2016	2016-03-04	1,252,951,007	10-K
2017	2017-03-03	1,202,918,166	10-K
2018	2018-03-02	1,157,269,522	10-K
2019	2019-03-08	1,103,903,507	10-K
2020	2020-03-06	1,074,741,592	10-K
2021	2021-03-05	1,077,069,383	10-K
2022	2022-03-04	1,033,349,933	10-K
2023	2023-03-01	1,014,955,506	10-K
2024	2024-02-28	991,015,773	10-K
2025	2025-03-05	994,032,168	10-K
2026	2026-03-04	996,011,466	10-K

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

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Home Depot buybacks, answered

Is Home Depot buying back its stock?

Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 997,689,626 as of August 18, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 4.5%.

How many shares has Home Depot bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Home Depot has 1.35 billion fewer shares than at its 2002 peak. That is 57.5% of the company.

How many shares does Home Depot have outstanding?

997,689,626 shares, as of August 18, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2002 peak it had 2,350,050,699.

What do Home Depot's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Home Depot stock in 2002 owns 2.4 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Home Depot compare with other cannibal stocks?

Home Depot ranks No. 36 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Graham Holdings (58.1%), CF Industries (57.5%), Best Buy (57.3%), TJX Companies (57.3%).

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