Motorola Solutions
MSIMotorola Solutions has retired 48.0% of its shares since 2011, from 317,969,760 to 165,493,788.
48.0%retired since 2011
2.0%last 5 years
0.6%last 12 months
165Mshares today
Motorola Solutions has retired 48.0% of its shares since 2011, from 317,969,760 to 165,493,788.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2012-01-31 | 317,969,760 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-01-31 | 275,983,331 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 253,865,362 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-01-31 | 216,679,202 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-01 | 174,337,851 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-01 | 164,744,310 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-02 | 161,307,525 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-01 | 163,871,288 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 170,579,096 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-01 | 169,028,294 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-07 | 168,209,089 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-06 | 167,250,071 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-05 | 166,132,981 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-07 | 166,936,952 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-06 | 165,658,912 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Motorola Solutions on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Motorola Solutions has 0.6% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 165,493,788 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 2.0%.
Net of every new share it issued, Motorola Solutions has 152.5 million fewer shares than at its 2011 peak. That is 48.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2012 alone it bought back about 203.1 million shares, while the count fell by 110.5 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
165,493,788 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2011 peak it had 317,969,760.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Motorola Solutions stock in 2011 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.
Motorola Solutions ranks No. 68 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Flexsteel (48.3%), Toll Brothers (48.0%), Equitable (47.6%), McDonald's (47.6%).
Every answer is computed from Motorola Solutions' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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