Macy's
MMacy's has retired 42.6% of its shares since 2007, from 454,663,061 to 261,176,646.
42.6%retired since 2007
12.7%last 5 years
1.8%last 12 months
261Mshares today
Macy's has retired 42.6% of its shares since 2007, from 454,663,061 to 261,176,646.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 2007-03-02 | 454,663,061 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-02-02 | 419,745,000 | 10-K | |
| 2009 | 2009-01-31 | 420,083,800 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2010-02-26 | 421,530,806 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2011-02-25 | 423,747,325 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-02-24 | 416,581,507 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2013-03-01 | 389,307,949 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2014-02-28 | 367,048,648 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-02-27 | 341,139,919 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-02-26 | 310,572,396 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-02-24 | 304,258,647 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-03-03 | 305,322,583 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-03-02 | 307,800,430 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-02-29 | 309,645,426 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-02-27 | 310,567,431 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-02-25 | 292,412,187 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-02-24 | 271,395,080 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-03-01 | 274,271,536 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-03-01 | 277,717,637 | 10-K | |
| 2026 | 2026-02-28 | 263,739,490 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Macy's on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Macy's has 1.8% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 261,176,646 as of August 29, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 12.7%.
Net of every new share it issued, Macy's has 193.5 million fewer shares than at its 2007 peak. That is 42.6% of the company.
261,176,646 shares, as of August 29, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2007 peak it had 454,663,061.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Macy's stock in 2007 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.
Macy's ranks No. 105 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: InterDigital (43.1%), Wells Fargo (42.7%), Booking Holdings (42.4%), Seneca Foods (42.3%).
Every answer is computed from Macy's' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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