Snap-on (SNA) Stock Buybacks: 21.1% of Shares Retired Since 1999

Name: Snap-on (SNA) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 65,591,3282026-07-17, 51,727,124

A share bought in 1999

1.3× more of Snap-on today, without buying another share. It was one of 65,591,328 shares then. It is one of 51,727,124 now.

Every filing we read26 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-02-23	65,591,328	10-K405	cover page
2000	2000-02-28	58,551,912	10-K405	cover page
2001	2002-02-25	58,037,218	10-K405	cover page
2002	2003-02-24	58,142,484	10-K	cover page
2003	2004-02-27	58,154,389	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-01-28	57,779,014	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-02-15	58,900,490	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-02-15	57,690,539	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-02-13	57,460,513	10-K	cover page
2010	2010-02-12	57,761,069	10-K	cover page
2011	2011-02-11	58,284,971	10-K
2012	2012-02-10	58,394,314	10-K
2013	2013-02-08	58,271,454	10-K
2014	2014-02-07	58,122,647	10-K
2015	2015-02-06	58,124,176	10-K
2016	2016-02-05	58,092,025	10-K
2017	2017-02-03	57,970,318	10-K
2018	2018-02-09	56,721,048	10-K
2019	2019-02-08	55,616,137	10-K
2020	2020-02-07	54,659,446	10-K
2021	2021-02-05	54,203,094	10-K
2022	2022-02-04	53,438,639	10-K
2023	2023-02-03	53,114,455	10-K
2024	2024-02-09	52,713,542	10-K
2025	2025-02-07	52,393,235	10-K
2026	2026-02-06	51,913,121	10-K

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

Snap-on buybacks, answered

Is Snap-on buying back its stock?

Yes. Snap-on has 0.5% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 51,727,124 as of July 17, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 3.7%.

How many shares has Snap-on bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Snap-on has 13.9 million fewer shares than at its 1999 peak. That is 21.1% of the company.

How many shares does Snap-on have outstanding?

51,727,124 shares, as of July 17, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 1999 peak it had 65,591,328.

What do Snap-on's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Snap-on stock in 1999 owns 1.3 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 Snap-on compare with other cannibal stocks?

Snap-on ranks No. 358 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Ipg Photonics (21.3%), IMAX (21.3%), Iridium Communications (21.1%), Rave Restaurant Group (21.1%).

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

Insider buying, last 12 months

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

The story

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