Kb Home has retired 40.6% of its shares since 2001, from 102,351,524 to 60,762,736.
At $43.30 a share, a market value of $2.6B. P/E 11.6, trailing twelve months to August 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2001-02-14 | 87,947,904 | 10-K405 | cover page |
| 2001 | 2002-02-15 | 102,351,524 | 10-K405 | cover page |
| 2002 | 2003-02-14 | 96,076,392 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2005-01-31 | 95,481,590 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2005-12-31 | 94,297,875 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2006-12-31 | 89,374,122 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-12-31 | 89,525,178 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-12-31 | 89,607,919 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-12-31 | 88,072,926 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-30 | 76,973,096 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2011-12-31 | 77,092,268 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-12-31 | 77,221,785 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2013-12-31 | 83,744,528 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2014-12-31 | 91,953,911 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-12-31 | 92,275,658 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-12-31 | 85,072,695 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-12-31 | 87,048,265 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-12-31 | 86,925,192 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-11-30 | 89,606,551 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-12-31 | 91,637,771 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-12-31 | 88,220,848 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-12-31 | 83,990,399 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-12-31 | 75,867,028 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-12-31 | 72,156,821 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-12-31 | 63,173,611 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Kb Home on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Read the full storyCash 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 $43.30.
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Yes. Kb Home has 6.2% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 60,762,736 as of August 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 30.5%.
Net of every new share it issued, Kb Home has 41.6 million fewer shares than at its 2001 peak. That is 40.6% of the company.
60,762,736 shares, as of August 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2001 peak it had 102,351,524.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Kb Home stock in 2001 owns 1.7 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Kb Home ranks No. 169 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Walmart (40.8%), Principal Financial Group (40.7%), Build-A-Bear Workshop (40.4%), Regions Financial (40.0%).
Every answer is computed from Kb Home's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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