Buyback Radar

O'Reilly Automotive

ORLY

O'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
21.8%last 5 years
4.7%last 12 months
809Mshares today
Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
a quarter gone 1999half gone 20192.1B shares, 2010809M200020052010201520202025
1999, 1,282,585,2602026-08-03, 808,960,792

Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.

A share bought in 1999
1.6× more of O'Reilly Automotive today, without buying another share. It was one of 1,282,585,260 shares then. It is one of 808,960,792 now.
Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
19991999-02-261,282,585,26010-Kcover page
20002000-02-291,525,141,08010-Kcover page
20012001-02-281,548,568,08010-Kcover page
20022002-02-281,585,724,88010-Kcover page
20032003-06-301,618,013,64010-Kcover page
20042004-06-301,651,907,37010-Kcover page
20052005-06-301,677,253,29010-Kcover page
20062006-06-301,700,911,36510-Kcover page
20072007-06-301,722,541,44010-K/Acover page
20082008-12-311,867,890,00010-Kfiscal-year average
20092010-06-302,080,050,54010-K
20102011-02-212,116,933,33510-K
20112012-02-201,909,729,36510-K
20122013-02-251,669,573,17010-K
20132014-02-241,595,473,86010-K
20142015-02-231,524,731,17510-K
20152016-02-221,457,841,25510-K
20162017-02-201,374,595,39510-K
20172018-02-191,255,063,50010-K
20182019-02-181,175,634,15010-K
20192020-02-241,123,456,20010-K
20202021-02-221,053,100,03510-K
20212022-02-21999,013,77010-K
20222023-02-20927,498,22510-K
20232024-02-19885,548,77510-K
20242025-02-24859,086,63010-K
20252026-02-23838,487,03410-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.

What the buybacks cost, since fiscal 2011cash flow statement against share count
$27.4Bspent on buybacks
1.3Bfewer shares outstanding
$21spent per share that actually disappeared
$355Mpaid in stock compensation over the same years

Part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. That part costs money and retires nothing, so the cost per share that disappeared is higher than the average price the company paid.

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