Proto Labs
PRLBProto Labs has retired 13.3% of its shares since 2020, from 27,604,879 to 23,921,897.
13.3%retired since 2020
13.3%last 5 years
-1.0%last 12 months
24Mshares today
Proto Labs has retired 13.3% of its shares since 2020, from 27,604,879 to 23,921,897.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013-03-08 | 25,120,156 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-21 | 25,580,699 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-20 | 25,872,439 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-17 | 26,201,818 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-16 | 26,527,770 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-14 | 26,901,193 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-15 | 26,982,587 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-14 | 26,787,910 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-10 | 27,604,879 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-09 | 27,466,902 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-06 | 26,679,484 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-09 | 25,721,957 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-10 | 24,233,196 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-17 | 23,775,160 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Proto Labs on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $85.65.
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Not on a net basis. Proto Labs has 1.0% 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 down 13.3%.
Net of every new share it issued, Proto Labs has 3.7 million fewer shares than at its 2020 peak. That is 13.3% of the company.
23,921,897 shares, as of July 28, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2020 peak it had 27,604,879.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Proto Labs stock in 2020 owns 1.2 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Proto Labs ranks No. 435 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Brown-Forman (14.1%), Marsh & Mclennan Companies (14.0%), Interface (13.2%), Align Technology (13.1%).
Every answer is computed from Proto Labs' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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