Howmet Aerospace
HWMHowmet Aerospace has retired 17.8% of its shares since 2018, from 484,940,842 to 398,801,399.
17.8%retired since 2018
6.7%last 5 years
0.8%last 12 months
399Mshares today
Howmet Aerospace has retired 17.8% of its shares since 2018, from 484,940,842 to 398,801,399.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2018-02-16 | 482,772,252 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-15 | 484,940,842 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-21 | 435,918,568 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-12 | 433,614,667 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-10 | 418,904,876 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-10 | 412,282,856 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-09 | 410,303,651 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-10 | 405,022,519 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-09 | 400,940,063 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Howmet Aerospace on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Howmet Aerospace has 0.8% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 398,801,399 as of August 3, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 6.7%.
Net of every new share it issued, Howmet Aerospace has 86.1 million fewer shares than at its 2018 peak. That is 17.8% of the company. Since fiscal 2019 alone it bought back about 40.1 million shares, while the count fell by 37.1 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
398,801,399 shares, as of August 3, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2018 peak it had 484,940,842.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Howmet Aerospace stock in 2018 owns 1.2 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Howmet Aerospace ranks No. 227 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Ingredion (18.4%), Yum! Brands (17.9%), Zoetis (17.5%), Church & Dwight (16.8%).
Every answer is computed from Howmet Aerospace's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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