MGIC Investment has retired 44.7% of its shares since 2017, from 370,862,190 to 205,124,840.
The 2017 peak comes after a 135 million share offering in 2013. In 2012 the count was 202,304,245, so the retirement is measured from after that issuance.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000-02-01 | 105,778,434 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2000 | 2001-02-01 | 106,858,747 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2001 | 2002-02-15 | 106,278,860 | 10-K405 | cover page |
| 2002 | 2003-02-15 | 99,243,731 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2003 | 2004-02-13 | 98,682,746 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2005-02-15 | 95,463,848 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2006-02-15 | 87,490,806 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2007-02-15 | 83,038,993 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2008-02-15 | 81,655,366 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2009-02-25 | 124,951,497 | 10-K | cover page, review share change, capital issuance |
| 2009 | 2009-12-31 | 125,101,057 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2011-02-15 | 201,115,257 | 10-K | review share change, capital issuance |
| 2011 | 2012-02-15 | 201,467,075 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-15 | 202,304,245 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-14 | 338,036,029 | 10-K | review share change, capital issuance |
| 2014 | 2015-02-13 | 338,920,963 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-12 | 340,008,569 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-15 | 340,990,121 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-16 | 370,862,190 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-15 | 355,636,284 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-14 | 345,852,631 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-19 | 338,779,666 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-18 | 315,605,040 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-17 | 290,428,422 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-16 | 269,669,667 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-21 | 242,706,658 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-20 | 214,953,360 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of MGIC Investment on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. MGIC Investment has 8.3% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 205,124,840 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 37.0%.
Net of every new share it issued, MGIC Investment has 165.7 million fewer shares than at its 2017 peak. That is 44.7% of the company. Since fiscal 2018 alone it bought back about 158.2 million shares, while the count fell by 150.5 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
205,124,840 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2017 peak it had 370,862,190.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held MGIC Investment stock in 2017 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.
MGIC Investment ranks No. 42 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Tapestry (47.5%), RCM Technologies (46.0%), MetLife (43.4%), InterDigital (43.1%).
Every answer is computed from MGIC Investment's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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