Ppg Industries (PPG) Stock Buybacks: 36.1% of Shares Retired Since 1999

Name: Ppg Industries (PPG) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 348,073,5122026-06-30, 222,300,000

A share bought in 1999

1.6× more of Ppg Industries today, without buying another share. It was one of 348,073,512 shares then. It is one of 222,300,000 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	2000-01-31	348,073,512	10-K405	cover page
2000	2001-01-31	336,399,542	10-K405	cover page
2001	2002-01-31	337,067,290	10-K	cover page
2002	2003-01-31	339,025,686	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-01-31	342,462,452	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-01-31	344,352,822	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-01-31	330,665,994	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-01-31	327,953,784	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-12-31	327,601,336	10-K
2008	2008-12-31	328,397,266	10-K
2009	2010-01-31	331,714,766	10-K
2010	2011-01-31	321,178,280	10-K
2011	2012-01-31	304,015,494	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	285,692,298	10-K
2013	2014-01-31	277,022,674	10-K
2014	2015-01-31	272,100,386	10-K
2015	2016-01-31	266,765,632	10-K
2016	2017-01-31	257,094,500	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	249,880,613	10-K/A
2018	2019-01-31	235,898,957	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	235,755,928	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	236,788,855	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	235,998,952	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	235,179,993	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	235,254,665	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	226,953,559	10-K
2025	2026-01-31	223,494,714	10-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Ppg Industries on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

Ppg Industries buybacks, answered

Is Ppg Industries buying back its stock?

Yes. Ppg Industries has 0.9% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 222,300,000 as of June 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 6.4%.

How many shares has Ppg Industries bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Ppg Industries has 125.8 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 36.1% of the company. Since fiscal 2007 alone it bought back about 131.2 million shares, while the count fell by 105.3 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Ppg Industries have outstanding?

222,300,000 shares, as of June 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 348,073,512.

What do Ppg Industries' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Ppg Industries stock in 1999 owns 1.6 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Ppg Industries compare with other cannibal stocks?

Ppg Industries ranks No. 139 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Waste Management (36.4%), Aon (36.3%), Phillips 66 (35.8%), CNX Resources (35.8%).

Every answer is computed from Ppg Industries' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Insider buying, last 12 months

Hefel Juliane M.Sr. VP, Ind Coatings & Sp Prod2026-09-11, 13 shares at $105.31 $1K total

Hefel Juliane M.Sr. VP, Ind Coatings & Sp Prod2026-06-12, 12 shares at $116.45 $1K total

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