Timken

Name: Timken (TKR) shares outstanding since 2003, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

TKR

Timken has retired 29.2% of its shares since 2010, from 97,888,273 to 69,296,839.

29.2%retired since 2010

8.7%last 5 years

0.5%last 12 months

69Mshares today

At $112.39 a share, a market value of $7.8B. FCF yield 4.9%, P/E 30.1, trailing twelve months to June 2026.

Shares outstanding, 2003 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2003, 89,358,2922026-07-31, 69,296,839

A share bought in 2003

1.3× more of Timken today, without buying another share. It was one of 89,358,292 shares then. It is one of 69,296,839 now.

Every filing we read23 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2003	2004-02-27	89,358,292	10-K	cover page
2004	2005-02-28	91,337,823	10-K	cover page
2005	2006-02-28	93,217,253	10-K	cover page
2006	2007-01-31	94,174,971	10-K	cover page
2007	2008-01-31	95,807,259	10-K	cover page
2008	2009-01-31	96,565,923	10-K	cover page
2009	2010-01-31	96,902,886	10-K	cover page
2010	2011-01-31	97,888,273	10-K
2011	2011-12-31	97,739,712	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	95,937,115	10-K
2013	2014-01-31	92,781,376	10-K
2014	2015-01-30	88,214,403	10-K
2015	2016-01-29	80,030,053	10-K
2016	2016-12-31	77,565,732	10-K
2017	2017-12-31	77,882,884	10-K
2018	2018-12-31	75,767,695	10-K
2019	2019-12-31	75,565,361	10-K
2020	2021-01-31	75,710,735	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	74,930,589	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	72,393,668	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	70,132,075	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	70,001,123	10-K
2025	2026-01-31	69,544,299	10-K

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

What the buybacks cost, fiscal 2011 to 2025cash flow statement against share count

$1.9Bspent on buybacks

28Mfewer shares outstanding

0.7%buyback yield, last fiscal year’s spend on today’s market value

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 $112.39.

Timken buybacks, answered

Is Timken buying back its stock?

Yes. Timken has 0.5% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 69,296,839 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 8.7%.

How many shares has Timken bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Timken has 28.6 million fewer shares than at its 2010 peak. That is 29.2% of the company.

How many shares does Timken have outstanding?

69,296,839 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2010 peak it had 97,888,273.

What do Timken's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Timken stock in 2010 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.

How does Timken compare with other cannibal stocks?

Timken ranks No. 277 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Academy Sports (29.3%), Netgear (29.3%), World Kinect (29.2%), Corpay (29.1%).

Every answer is computed from Timken'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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