Name: Valero Energy (VLO) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 224,280,8602026-07-24, 287,927,461

Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.

A share bought in 2002

1.5× more of Valero Energy today, without buying another share. It was one of 419,663,880 shares then. It is one of 287,927,461 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-02-01	224,280,860	10-K	cover page
2000	2000-02-01	223,014,332	10-K405	cover page
2001	2001-02-01	244,152,352	10-K405	cover page
2002	2002-02-28	419,663,880	10-K405	cover page
2003	2003-02-28	430,539,024	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-02-29	519,559,000	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-02-28	513,290,332	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-01-31	621,838,191	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-12-31	565,000,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2008	2008-12-31	524,000,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2009	2010-01-31	564,808,668	10-K
2010	2011-02-25	568,971,156	10-K
2011	2012-01-31	555,069,442	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	552,933,285	10-K
2013	2014-01-31	532,510,263	10-K
2014	2015-01-30	514,888,348	10-K
2015	2016-01-29	470,392,665	10-K
2016	2017-01-31	451,049,519	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	433,176,258	10-K
2018	2019-01-31	417,614,487	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	409,337,126	10-K
2020	2021-02-19	408,562,891	10-K
2021	2022-02-18	409,303,630	10-K
2022	2023-02-17	371,150,836	10-K
2023	2024-02-16	332,481,908	10-K
2024	2025-02-21	314,977,519	10-K
2025	2026-02-20	299,026,226	10-K

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

What the buybacks cost, since fiscal 2007cash flow statement against share count

$33Bspent on buybacks

334Mfewer shares outstanding

$99spent per share that actually disappeared

$1.5Bpaid in stock compensation over the same years

Part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. That part costs money and retires nothing, so the cost per share that disappeared is higher than the average price the company paid.

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