Ipg Photonics
IPGPIpg Photonics has retired 21.3% of its shares since 2017, from 54,056,120 to 42,534,539.
21.3%retired since 2017
20.2%last 5 years
-1.0%last 12 months
43Mshares today
Ipg Photonics has retired 21.3% of its shares since 2017, from 54,056,120 to 42,534,539.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2007-03-23 | 42,916,532 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2008-02-29 | 44,093,455 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2009-03-04 | 45,348,308 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2010-03-08 | 46,105,854 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 46,988,566 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-02-23 | 47,680,519 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-25 | 51,415,585 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-25 | 51,954,978 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-24 | 52,482,512 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-24 | 52,887,734 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-22 | 53,517,149 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-22 | 54,056,120 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-24 | 52,962,009 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-21 | 53,058,726 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-19 | 53,533,592 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-18 | 52,939,383 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-24 | 47,627,143 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-20 | 46,098,133 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-18 | 42,548,561 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-20 | 42,191,353 | 10-K/A |
Source: all 10-K filings of Ipg Photonics 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 $71.01.
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Not on a net basis. Ipg Photonics has 1.0% more shares outstanding than twelve months ago. Whatever it bought back did not cover the new shares it issued. Over five years the share count is down 20.2%.
Net of every new share it issued, Ipg Photonics has 11.5 million fewer shares than at its 2017 peak. That is 21.3% of the company. Since fiscal 2018 alone it bought back about 14.5 million shares, while the count fell by 10.4 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
42,534,539 shares, as of August 3, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2017 peak it had 54,056,120.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Ipg Photonics stock in 2017 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.
Ipg Photonics ranks No. 210 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Genuine Parts (22.0%), Upbound Group (21.8%), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (21.1%), Rave Restaurant Group (21.1%).
Every answer is computed from Ipg Photonics' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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