Vistra
VSTVistra has retired 31.2% of its shares since 2019, from 487,734,006 to 335,635,195.
31.2%retired since 2019
30.5%last 5 years
0.9%last 12 months
336Mshares today
Vistra has retired 31.2% of its shares since 2019, from 487,734,006 to 335,635,195.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2018-02-21 | 428,447,631 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-25 | 485,894,408 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-24 | 487,734,006 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-23 | 483,716,012 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-22 | 448,803,986 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-23 | 381,453,001 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-23 | 347,885,110 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-24 | 338,963,642 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-18 | 336,954,256 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Vistra on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
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Yes. Vistra has 0.9% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 335,635,195 as of August 3, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 30.5%.
Net of every new share it issued, Vistra has 152.1 million fewer shares than at its 2019 peak. That is 31.2% of the company. Since fiscal 2020 alone it bought back about 174.6 million shares, while the count fell by 148.1 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
335,635,195 shares, as of August 3, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2019 peak it had 487,734,006.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Vistra stock in 2019 owns 1.5 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Vistra ranks No. 166 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Willis Towers Watson (31.5%), Medpace (31.5%), Corebridge Financial (31.2%), Colgate-Palmolive (31.0%).
Every answer is computed from Vistra's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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