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Huntington Ingalls Industries

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Huntington Ingalls Industries has retired 20.6% of its shares since 2012, from 49,605,436 to 39,404,598.

20.6%retired since 2012
1.6%last 5 years
-0.4%last 12 months
39Mshares today
Shares outstanding, 2011 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
50M shares, 201239M201520202025
2011, 49,395,9522026-07-24, 39,404,598
A share bought in 2011
1.3× more of Huntington Ingalls Industries today, without buying another share. It was one of 49,395,952 shares then. It is one of 39,404,598 now.
Every filing we read15 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
20112012-03-2149,395,95210-K
20122013-02-2249,605,43610-K
20132014-02-2148,722,30510-K
20142015-02-1348,303,90510-K
20152016-02-1246,814,80810-K
20162017-02-1046,030,94710-K
20172018-02-0944,785,77610-K
20182019-02-0841,529,91110-K
20192020-02-0740,759,98810-K
20202021-02-0540,316,76010-K
20212022-02-0439,989,02210-K
20222023-02-0339,855,81410-K
20232024-01-2639,590,68710-K
20242025-01-3139,130,16310-K
20252026-01-3039,242,68810-K

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

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Huntington Ingalls Industries buybacks, answered

Is Huntington Ingalls Industries buying back its stock?

Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 39,404,598 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 1.6%.

How many shares has Huntington Ingalls Industries bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Huntington Ingalls Industries has 10.2 million fewer shares than at its 2012 peak. That is 20.6% of the company. Since fiscal 2013 alone it bought back about 14.6 million shares, while the count fell by 9.3 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Huntington Ingalls Industries have outstanding?

39,404,598 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2012 peak it had 49,605,436.

What do Huntington Ingalls Industries' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Huntington Ingalls Industries stock in 2012 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 Huntington Ingalls Industries compare with other cannibal stocks?

Huntington Ingalls Industries ranks No. 366 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Phinia (20.6%), Morgan Stanley (20.6%), Kaiser Aluminum (20.6%), Progyny (20.5%).

Every answer is computed from Huntington Ingalls Industries' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Superinvestors who own it

Tom GaynerMarkel Group27,500 shares, $7.7M, Q2 2026

From the latest 13F filings. All superinvestors.

Insider buying, last 12 months

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

The story

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