Newell Brands
NWLNewell Brands has retired 12.2% of its shares since 2017, from 485,200,000 to 425,900,000.
12.2%retired since 2017
-0.1%last 5 years
-1.6%last 12 months
426Mshares today
Newell Brands has retired 12.2% of its shares since 2017, from 485,200,000 to 425,900,000.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 485,200,000 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 422,800,000 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 423,500,000 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-12 | 424,600,000 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-04 | 425,500,000 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-06 | 413,600,000 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-14 | 414,300,000 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-10 | 416,200,000 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-09 | 419,200,000 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Newell Brands on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. Newell Brands has 1.6% more shares outstanding than twelve months ago. Whatever it bought back did not cover the new shares it issued. Over five years the share count is up 0.1%.
Net of every new share it issued, Newell Brands has 59.3 million fewer shares than at its 2017 peak. That is 12.2% of the company.
425,900,000 shares, as of July 27, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2017 peak it had 485,200,000.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Newell Brands stock in 2017 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.
Newell Brands ranks No. 246 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Align Technology (13.1%), Axalta Coating Systems (12.7%), Meta Platforms (12.2%), TripAdvisor (12.2%).
Every answer is computed from Newell Brands' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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