O'Reilly Automotive
ORLYO'Reilly Automotive has retired 61.8% of its shares since 2010, from 2,116,933,335 to 808,960,792.
61.8%retired since 2010
20.0%last 5 years
4.2%last 12 months
809Mshares today
O'Reilly Automotive has retired 61.8% of its shares since 2010, from 2,116,933,335 to 808,960,792.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000-02-29 | 1,525,141,080 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2000 | 2001-02-28 | 1,548,568,080 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2001 | 2002-02-28 | 1,585,724,880 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2002 | 2003-02-28 | 1,601,047,770 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2003 | 2003-06-30 | 1,618,013,640 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2004 | 2004-06-30 | 1,651,907,370 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2005 | 2005-06-30 | 1,677,253,290 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2006 | 2006-06-30 | 1,700,911,365 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2007 | 2007-06-30 | 1,722,541,440 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2008 | 2008-06-30 | 1,736,415,720 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2009 | 2010-06-30 | 2,080,050,540 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2011-02-21 | 2,116,933,335 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-02-20 | 1,909,729,365 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-25 | 1,669,573,170 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-24 | 1,595,473,860 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-23 | 1,524,731,175 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-22 | 1,457,841,255 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-20 | 1,374,595,395 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-19 | 1,255,063,500 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-18 | 1,175,634,150 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-24 | 1,123,456,200 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-22 | 1,053,100,035 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-21 | 999,013,770 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-20 | 927,498,225 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-19 | 885,548,775 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-24 | 859,086,630 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-23 | 838,487,034 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of O'Reilly Automotive on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. O'Reilly Automotive has 4.2% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 808,960,792 as of August 3, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 20.0%.
Net of every new share it issued, O'Reilly Automotive has 1.31 billion fewer shares than at its 2010 peak. That is 61.8% of the company. Since fiscal 2011 alone it bought back about 1.22 billion shares, while the count fell by 1.10 billion. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
808,960,792 shares, as of August 3, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2010 peak it had 2,116,933,335.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held O'Reilly Automotive stock in 2010 owns 2.6 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
O'Reilly Automotive ranks No. 14 of 65 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Voya Financial (62.5%), Assurant (62.0%), Bath & Body Works (61.4%), Synchrony Financial (61.0%).
Every answer is computed from O'Reilly Automotive's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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