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Sunstone Hotel Investors

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Sunstone Hotel Investors has retired 18.5% of its shares since 2018, from 228,246,247 to 185,943,941.

18.5%retired since 2018
15.2%last 5 years
2.1%last 12 months
186Mshares today

At $11.83 a share, a market value of $2.2B. FCF yield 4.5%, P/E 41.4, trailing twelve months to June 2026.

Shares outstanding, 2012 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
228M shares, 2018186M201520202025
2012, 158,777,4302026-07-30, 185,943,941
A share bought in 2014
1.1× more of Sunstone Hotel Investors today, without buying another share. It was one of 208,512,765 shares then. It is one of 185,943,941 now.
Every filing we read14 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
20122013-02-11158,777,43010-K
20132014-02-14182,860,46910-K
20142015-02-12208,512,76510-K
20152016-02-12216,000,82110-K
20162017-02-10220,073,14010-K
20172018-02-08225,321,66010-K
20182019-02-07228,246,24710-K
20192020-02-13225,115,70410-K
20202021-02-05215,593,40110-K
20212022-02-07219,333,78310-K
20222023-02-08208,170,64210-K
20232024-02-20203,532,88810-K
20242025-02-07201,019,09710-K
20252026-02-20189,519,49210-K

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

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Sunstone Hotel Investors buybacks, answered

Is Sunstone Hotel Investors buying back its stock?

Yes. Sunstone Hotel Investors has 2.1% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 185,943,941 as of July 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 15.2%.

How many shares has Sunstone Hotel Investors bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Sunstone Hotel Investors has 42.3 million fewer shares than at its 2018 peak. That is 18.5% of the company.

How many shares does Sunstone Hotel Investors have outstanding?

185,943,941 shares, as of July 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2018 peak it had 228,246,247.

What do Sunstone Hotel Investors' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Sunstone Hotel Investors stock in 2018 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.

How does Sunstone Hotel Investors compare with other cannibal stocks?

Sunstone Hotel Investors ranks No. 387 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Dorman Products (18.7%), Alliancebernstein Holding (18.7%), Ingevity (18.4%), Ingredion (18.4%).

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

Superinvestors who own it

Chris DavisDavis Selected Advisers870,120 shares, $10.0M, Q2 2026

From the latest 13F filings. All superinvestors.

Insider buying, last 12 months

No open-market purchases reported in the last 12 months.

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