PayPal
PYPLPayPal has retired 30.0% of its shares since 2015, from 1,222,675,902 to 855,460,874.
30.0%retired since 2015
27.2%last 5 years
8.6%last 12 months
855Mshares today
PayPal has retired 30.0% of its shares since 2015, from 1,222,675,902 to 855,460,874.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2016-02-05 | 1,222,675,902 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-02 | 1,207,583,234 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-02 | 1,200,160,405 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 1,173,209,367 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-01-31 | 1,172,955,485 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-01-29 | 1,171,175,760 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-01-28 | 1,165,004,913 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-03 | 1,131,373,298 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-01 | 1,071,741,864 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-01-29 | 989,242,452 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-01-28 | 920,664,542 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of PayPal on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. PayPal has 8.6% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 855,460,874 as of July 22, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 27.2%.
Net of every new share it issued, PayPal has 367.2 million fewer shares than at its 2015 peak. That is 30.0% of the company.
855,460,874 shares, as of July 22, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2015 peak it had 1,222,675,902.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held PayPal stock in 2015 owns 1.4 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
PayPal ranks No. 171 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Ziff Davis (30.9%), Alaska Air Group (30.8%), Factset Research Systems (29.9%), Clearwater Paper (29.8%).
Every answer is computed from PayPal's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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