Name: The Hartford (HIG) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 226,826,6582026-07-22, 270,872,002

A share bought in 2004

1.1× more of The Hartford today, without buying another share. It was one of 291,345,148 shares then. It is one of 270,872,002 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-02-26	226,826,658	10-K	cover page
2000	2000-02-29	214,581,962	10-K	cover page
2001	2001-02-28	236,640,967	10-K/A	cover page
2002	2002-02-28	246,259,394	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-02-27	255,399,358	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-02-20	291,345,148	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-02-15	295,711,882	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-02-15	302,458,058	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-12-31	313,842,000	10-Q/A
2008	2008-12-31	300,579,000	10-Q/A
2009	2010-02-15	384,128,538	10-K
2010	2011-02-18	444,734,147	10-K/A
2011	2012-02-17	440,237,475	10-K
2012	2013-02-21	436,598,310	10-K
2013	2014-02-25	446,342,284	10-K
2014	2014-12-31	420,951,148	10-K
2015	2016-02-24	396,675,884	10-K
2016	2017-02-23	370,189,269	10-K
2017	2018-02-21	356,981,387	10-K
2018	2019-02-20	359,470,401	10-K
2019	2020-02-19	358,252,183	10-K
2020	2021-02-18	357,514,315	10-K
2021	2022-02-17	331,646,836	10-K
2022	2023-02-23	313,057,095	10-K
2023	2024-02-22	297,350,060	10-K
2024	2025-02-20	285,386,985	10-K
2025	2026-02-19	275,863,220	10-K

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

What the buybacks cost, since fiscal 2014cash flow statement against share count

$12.2Bspent on buybacks

175Mfewer shares outstanding

$70spent per share that actually disappeared

$1.2Bpaid in stock compensation over the same years

Part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. That part costs money and retires nothing, so the cost per share that disappeared is higher than the average price the company paid.

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Insider buying, last 12 months

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

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