Hexcel
HXLHexcel has retired 24.6% of its shares since 2012, from 100,351,188 to 75,623,452.
24.6%retired since 2012
9.9%last 5 years
5.0%last 12 months
76Mshares today
Hexcel has retired 24.6% of its shares since 2012, from 100,351,188 to 75,623,452.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2006-03-01 | 93,038,134 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2007-02-23 | 93,978,721 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2008-02-18 | 95,814,889 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2009-02-10 | 96,510,805 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-12-31 | 96,600,000 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2011-02-08 | 97,526,055 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-02-02 | 99,386,576 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-05 | 100,351,188 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-30 | 98,916,627 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-01-30 | 95,747,347 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-27 | 93,290,125 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-31 | 91,508,774 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 89,842,578 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 84,794,472 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 83,344,269 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-29 | 83,649,842 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-31 | 83,988,242 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-01-31 | 84,284,844 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-01-31 | 84,388,010 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 81,131,632 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-30 | 75,870,417 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Hexcel on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $90.22.
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Yes. Hexcel has 5.0% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 75,623,452 as of July 27, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 9.9%.
Net of every new share it issued, Hexcel has 24.7 million fewer shares than at its 2012 peak. That is 24.6% of the company. Since fiscal 2013 alone it bought back about 33.9 million shares, while the count fell by 23.3 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
75,623,452 shares, as of July 27, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2012 peak it had 100,351,188.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Hexcel 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.
Hexcel ranks No. 331 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Werner Enterprises (24.9%), Minerals Technologies (24.8%), Yext (24.6%), Northern Trust (24.4%).
Every answer is computed from Hexcel's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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