Murphy Oil has retired 26.0% of its shares since 2011, from 193,877,158 to 143,381,125.
At $41.74 a share, a market value of $6.0B. P/E 20.4, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000-01-31 | 180,055,588 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2000 | 2001-01-31 | 180,189,476 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2001 | 2002-01-31 | 181,438,732 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2002 | 2003-01-31 | 183,398,752 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2003 | 2004-01-31 | 183,760,608 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2005-01-31 | 184,068,166 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2006-01-31 | 186,567,899 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2007-01-31 | 187,637,200 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-12-31 | 189,714,149 | 10-K | |
| 2008 | 2008-12-31 | 190,713,806 | 10-K | |
| 2009 | 2010-01-31 | 191,136,278 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2011-01-31 | 192,853,864 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-01-31 | 193,877,158 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-01-31 | 190,666,200 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 183,181,954 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-01-31 | 177,501,534 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-31 | 172,034,472 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-31 | 172,396,581 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 172,572,873 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 173,058,829 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 153,169,317 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-31 | 153,598,625 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-31 | 154,492,604 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-01-31 | 155,762,646 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-01-31 | 152,755,027 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 145,855,183 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-31 | 142,830,352 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Murphy Oil on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 143,381,125 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 7.2%.
Net of every new share it issued, Murphy Oil has 50.5 million fewer shares than at its 2011 peak. That is 26.0% of the company. Since fiscal 2012 alone it bought back about 59.8 million shares, while the count fell by 47.3 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
143,381,125 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2011 peak it had 193,877,158.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Murphy Oil stock in 2011 owns 1.4 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Murphy Oil ranks No. 315 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Fluor (26.3%), Cognizant (26.1%), Middleby (26.0%), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (26.0%).
Every answer is computed from Murphy Oil's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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