Kemper (KMPR) Stock Buybacks: 17.0% of Shares Retired Since 1999

Name: Kemper (KMPR) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 70,992,8972026-08-03, 58,923,154

A share bought in 1999

1.2× more of Kemper today, without buying another share. It was one of 70,992,897 shares then. It is one of 58,923,154 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-12-31	70,992,897	10-K405	cover page
2000	2000-12-31	67,648,447	10-K405	cover page
2001	2001-12-31	67,547,104	10-K405	cover page
2002	2003-01-27	67,596,409	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-01-26	67,838,878	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-01-27	68,863,790	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-01-26	68,527,308	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-02-01	67,003,267	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-01-30	64,263,730	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-01-30	62,314,503	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-12-31	62,357,016	10-K
2010	2011-01-31	61,066,587	10-K
2011	2012-01-31	60,367,195	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	58,558,898	10-K
2013	2014-02-13	55,510,825	10-K
2014	2015-02-10	51,874,886	10-K
2015	2016-01-31	51,325,205	10-K
2016	2017-01-31	51,294,172	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	51,463,199	10-K
2018	2019-01-25	64,757,594	10-K
2019	2020-01-24	66,668,172	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	65,454,685	10-K
2021	2022-02-08	63,688,550	10-K
2022	2023-02-07	63,959,923	10-K
2023	2024-02-05	64,323,693	10-K
2024	2025-02-05	63,900,557	10-K
2025	2026-02-09	58,714,589	10-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Kemper on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

Kemper buybacks, answered

Is Kemper buying back its stock?

Not on a net basis. Kemper has 0.6% 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 7.4%.

How many shares has Kemper bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Kemper has 12.1 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 17.0% of the company.

How many shares does Kemper have outstanding?

58,923,154 shares, as of August 3, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 70,992,897.

What do Kemper's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Kemper stock in 1999 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.

How does Kemper compare with other cannibal stocks?

Kemper ranks No. 403 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Whirlpool (17.2%), Leidos (17.1%), Church & Dwight (16.8%), NOV (16.8%).

Every answer is computed from Kemper's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Insider buying, last 12 months

McAnena Stephen JPresident and CEO2026-08-13, 3,000 shares at $26.50 $80K total

LADERMAN GERALDDirector2026-08-11, 4,000 shares at $26.49 $106K total

Evans Carl Thomas Jr.EVP, Sec. & General Counsel2026-08-11, 1,000 shares at $26.53 $27K total

Camden Bradley TEVP and CFO2026-08-11, 1,000 shares at $26.34 $26K total

Gorevic Jason NDirector2026-08-10, 5,000 shares at $25.91 $130K total

Parker Stuart B.Director2025-11-10, 25,000 shares at $36.82 $920K total

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