Ingevity
NGVTIngevity has retired 18.4% of its shares since 2016, from 42,125,358 to 34,377,922.
18.4%retired since 2016
12.5%last 5 years
4.4%last 12 months
34Mshares today
Ingevity has retired 18.4% of its shares since 2016, from 42,125,358 to 34,377,922.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2017-02-28 | 42,125,358 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-26 | 42,075,186 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-19 | 41,618,887 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-24 | 41,832,444 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-15 | 40,468,010 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-21 | 39,000,200 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-20 | 37,150,610 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-14 | 36,235,885 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-14 | 36,351,236 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-18 | 35,291,884 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Ingevity on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash 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 $69.82.
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Yes. Ingevity has 4.4% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 34,377,922 as of July 24, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 12.5%.
Net of every new share it issued, Ingevity has 7.7 million fewer shares than at its 2016 peak. That is 18.4% of the company. Since fiscal 2017 alone it bought back about 8.1 million shares, while the count fell by 7.7 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
34,377,922 shares, as of July 24, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2016 peak it had 42,125,358.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Ingevity stock in 2016 owns 1.2 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Ingevity ranks No. 224 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Eli Lilly (18.9%), Dorman Products (18.7%), Ingredion (18.4%), Yum! Brands (17.9%).
Every answer is computed from Ingevity's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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