Sl Green Realty has retired 27.5% of its shares since 2016, from 97,727,977 to 70,849,907.
At $47.00 a share, a market value of $3.3B. P/E n/m, trailing twelve months to March 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2009-12-31 | 78,581,951 | 10-K | |
| 2010 | 2011-02-15 | 76,693,290 | 10-K | |
| 2011 | 2012-02-15 | 83,919,642 | 10-K | |
| 2012 | 2013-01-31 | 88,682,604 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-14 | 92,352,717 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-17 | 95,829,548 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-22 | 97,218,175 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-17 | 97,727,977 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-22 | 87,766,054 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-25 | 81,934,557 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-27 | 75,725,791 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-25 | 69,350,829 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-17 | 64,770,730 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-15 | 64,365,509 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-22 | 64,799,013 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-13 | 71,004,564 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-13 | 71,031,183 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Sl Green Realty on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 70,849,907 as of August 5, 2026. Over five years the share count is up 6.2%.
Net of every new share it issued, Sl Green Realty has 26.9 million fewer shares than at its 2016 peak. That is 27.5% of the company. Since fiscal 2017 alone it bought back about 36.1 million shares, while the count fell by 16.9 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
70,849,907 shares, as of August 5, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2016 peak it had 97,727,977.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Sl Green Realty stock in 2016 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.
Sl Green Realty ranks No. 303 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Criteo S.A. (27.6%), GoDaddy (27.5%), CDW (27.4%), Exponent (27.3%).
Every answer is computed from Sl Green Realty's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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