Moody's (MCO) Stock Buybacks: 46.2% of Shares Retired Since 1999

Name: Moody's (MCO) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 321,647,6182026-06-30, 173,200,000

A share bought in 1999

1.9× more of Moody's today, without buying another share. It was one of 321,647,618 shares then. It is one of 173,200,000 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-12-31	321,647,618	10-K405	cover page
2000	2001-01-31	319,726,562	10-K405	cover page
2001	2002-01-31	309,074,298	10-K405	cover page
2002	2003-01-31	295,800,000	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-01-31	297,200,000	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-01-31	298,200,000	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-01-31	289,600,000	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-01-31	278,500,000	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-01-31	247,800,000	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-01-31	235,200,000	10-K	cover page
2009	2010-01-31	236,900,000	10-K
2010	2011-01-31	229,400,000	10-K
2011	2012-01-31	222,900,000	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	223,600,000	10-K
2013	2013-12-31	213,700,000	10-K
2014	2014-12-31	213,700,000	10-K
2015	2016-01-31	194,900,000	10-K
2016	2017-01-31	190,800,000	10-K
2017	2017-12-31	191,000,000	10-K
2018	2018-12-31	191,300,000	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	187,400,000	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	187,100,000	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	185,200,000	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	183,200,000	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	182,500,000	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	180,000,000	10-K
2025	2026-01-31	177,300,000	10-K

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

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Moody's buybacks, answered

Is Moody's buying back its stock?

Yes. Moody's has 2.9% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 173,200,000 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 6.8%.

How many shares has Moody's bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Moody's has 148.4 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 46.2% of the company.

How many shares does Moody's have outstanding?

173,200,000 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 321,647,618.

What do Moody's' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Moody's stock in 1999 owns 1.9 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 Moody's compare with other cannibal stocks?

Moody's ranks No. 81 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Avnet (46.3%), Cisco (46.2%), RCM Technologies (46.0%), Labcorp (45.7%).

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