Navient has retired 76.6% of its shares since 2014, from 401,460,484 to 93,783,828.
At $9.28 a share, a market value of $870.3M. P/E n/m, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2015-01-31 | 401,460,484 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-31 | 342,817,020 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-31 | 291,008,528 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 263,388,482 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 244,507,321 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 193,333,131 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-31 | 183,771,633 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-31 | 152,132,902 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-01-31 | 128,941,323 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-01-31 | 112,749,884 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-31 | 102,276,303 | 10-K/A | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-31 | 95,089,668 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Navient on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Read the full storyCash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $9.28.
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Yes. Navient has 3.8% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 93,783,828 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 41.8%.
Net of every new share it issued, Navient has 307.7 million fewer shares than at its 2014 peak. That is 76.6% of the company.
93,783,828 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2014 peak it had 401,460,484.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Navient stock in 2014 owns 4.3 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Navient ranks No. 8 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Assured Guaranty (77.4%), Credit Acceptance (76.9%), DaVita (74.3%), Globe Life (73.7%).
Every answer is computed from Navient's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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