Vail Resorts has retired 12.0% of its shares since 2018, from 40,475,511 to 35,635,298.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2005-09-26 | 36,736,325 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2006-09-29 | 38,753,220 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-09-21 | 38,860,120 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-09-22 | 36,921,791 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-09-18 | 36,174,979 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-09-15 | 35,911,506 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2011 | 2011-09-15 | 36,071,071 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-09-18 | 35,584,236 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2013-09-20 | 35,964,133 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2014-09-17 | 36,218,867 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-09-23 | 36,546,790 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-09-21 | 36,179,664 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-09-25 | 40,019,342 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-09-24 | 40,475,511 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-09-23 | 40,285,628 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-09-21 | 40,189,225 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-09-20 | 40,391,129 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-09-26 | 40,281,228 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-09-25 | 38,149,524 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-09-23 | 37,485,473 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-09-24 | 35,884,970 | 10-K | |
| 2026 | 2026-09-23 | 35,635,298 | 10-K | cover page |
Source: all 10-K filings of Vail Resorts on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Loading the chart from TradingView…
All-time chart by TradingView. Open it on TradingView →
Yes. Vail Resorts has 0.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 35,635,298 as of September 23, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 11.8%.
Net of every new share it issued, Vail Resorts has 4.8 million fewer shares than at its 2018 peak. That is 12.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2019 alone it bought back about 5.8 million shares, while the count fell by 4.7 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
35,635,298 shares, as of September 23, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-K. At the 2018 peak it had 40,475,511.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Vail Resorts stock in 2018 owns 1.1 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Vail Resorts ranks No. 249 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Meta Platforms (12.2%), TripAdvisor (12.2%), Thermo Fisher (11.7%), RTX (11.3%).
Every answer is computed from Vail Resorts' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-K on EDGAR.
From the latest 13F filings. All superinvestors.
The numbers say what happened. The story says whether it can continue. We cover companies like Vail Resorts in depth on Cannibal Stocks.
Read Cannibal Stocks