Loews (L) Stock Buybacks: 65.7% of Shares Retired Since 1999

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

1999, 596,332,2002026-07-31, 204,427,720

A share bought in 1999

2.9× more of Loews today, without buying another share. It was one of 596,332,200 shares then. It is one of 204,427,720 now.

Every filing we read26 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	2000-03-17	596,332,200	10-K405	cover page
2000	2001-03-09	591,714,300	10-K405	cover page
2001	2002-03-01	573,407,400	10-K	cover page
2002	2003-03-14	556,323,600	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-02-20	556,341,150	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-02-18	556,864,797	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-02-17	557,650,977	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-02-15	529,694,652	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-02-13	435,136,670	10-K	cover page
2009	2010-02-12	422,433,635	10-K
2010	2011-02-01	413,706,490	10-K
2011	2012-02-01	396,793,726	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	391,885,833	10-K
2013	2014-02-14	387,403,380	10-K
2014	2015-02-13	373,176,361	10-K
2015	2016-02-03	338,998,280	10-K
2016	2017-02-03	336,632,474	10-K
2017	2018-02-02	328,825,271	10-K
2018	2019-02-01	311,299,326	10-K
2019	2020-02-07	287,770,405	10-K
2020	2021-02-05	267,046,558	10-K
2021	2022-02-04	248,202,443	10-K
2022	2023-02-03	234,997,673	10-K
2023	2024-02-02	222,201,139	10-K
2024	2025-02-07	212,861,300	10-K
2025	2026-02-06	206,052,874	10-K

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

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Loews buybacks, answered

Is Loews buying back its stock?

Yes. Loews has 1.1% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 204,427,720 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 19.4%.

How many shares has Loews bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Loews has 391.9 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 65.7% of the company.

How many shares does Loews have outstanding?

204,427,720 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 596,332,200.

What do Loews' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Loews stock in 1999 owns 2.9 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 Loews compare with other cannibal stocks?

Loews ranks No. 9 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: H&R Block (68.4%), Allstate (67.4%), Ameriprise (65.4%), CNO Financial (63.2%).

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

Insider buying, last 12 months

Robusto DinoDirector2026-05-29, 5,000 shares at $104.74 $524K total

Robusto DinoDirector2026-05-05, 5,000 shares at $105.44 $527K total

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