MBIA has retired 43.1% of its shares since 2018, from 89,622,622 to 51,016,444.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019-02-21 | 89,622,622 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-20 | 76,459,050 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-22 | 53,726,305 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-21 | 54,604,940 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-21 | 54,838,098 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-21 | 50,925,911 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-20 | 50,971,033 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-19 | 50,511,149 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of MBIA on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. MBIA 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 6.2%.
Net of every new share it issued, MBIA has 38.6 million fewer shares than at its 2018 peak. That is 43.1% of the company. Since fiscal 2019 alone it bought back about 41.1 million shares, while the count fell by 25.4 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
51,016,444 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2018 peak it had 89,622,622.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held MBIA stock in 2018 owns 1.8 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
MBIA ranks No. 102 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Capri (43.6%), MetLife (43.4%), InterDigital (43.1%), Wells Fargo (42.7%).
Every answer is computed from MBIA's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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