Oracle
ORCLOracle has retired 42.3% of its shares since 2006, from 5,238,329,303 to 3,023,736,000.
42.3%retired since 2006
-10.4%last 5 years
-6.4%last 12 months
3Bshares today
Oracle has retired 42.3% of its shares since 2006, from 5,238,329,303 to 3,023,736,000.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2006-07-17 | 5,238,329,303 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-06-25 | 5,113,035,975 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-06-27 | 5,155,842,000 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2009-05-31 | 5,005,000,000 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2010-06-22 | 5,026,247,000 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2011-06-20 | 5,065,515,000 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2012-06-20 | 4,882,506,000 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2013-06-19 | 4,630,807,000 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2014-06-19 | 4,454,889,000 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2015-06-18 | 4,336,077,000 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2016-06-15 | 4,122,730,000 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2017-06-16 | 4,136,682,000 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2018-06-15 | 3,981,155,000 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-06-17 | 3,335,819,000 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2020-06-16 | 3,068,682,000 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2021-06-15 | 2,792,000,000 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2022-06-13 | 2,664,926,000 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2023-06-12 | 2,714,259,000 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2024-06-13 | 2,755,860,000 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2025-06-13 | 2,808,833,000 | 10-K | |
| 2026 | 2026-06-12 | 2,880,471,000 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Oracle on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Not on a net basis. Oracle has 6.4% 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 10.4%.
Net of every new share it issued, Oracle has 2.21 billion fewer shares than at its 2006 peak. That is 42.3% of the company. Since fiscal 2008 alone it bought back about 3.57 billion shares, while the count fell by 2.13 billion. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
3,023,736,000 shares, as of September 7, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2006 peak it had 5,238,329,303.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Oracle stock in 2006 owns 1.7 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Oracle ranks No. 108 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Booking Holdings (42.4%), Seneca Foods (42.3%), Robert Half (42.2%), Cintas (42.1%).
Every answer is computed from Oracle's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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