Huntington Ingalls Industries has retired 20.6% of its shares since 2012, from 49,605,436 to 39,404,598.
At $272.00 a share, a market value of $10.7B. P/E 16.2, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2012-03-21 | 49,395,952 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-22 | 49,605,436 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-21 | 48,722,305 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-13 | 48,303,905 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-12 | 46,814,808 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-10 | 46,030,947 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-09 | 44,785,776 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-08 | 41,529,911 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-07 | 40,759,988 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-05 | 40,316,760 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-04 | 39,989,022 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-03 | 39,855,814 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-01-26 | 39,590,687 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 39,130,163 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-30 | 39,242,688 | 10-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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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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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