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Europe’s cannibal stocks, counted from the filings.

The 100 European companies that retired the most of their own shares since 2019. London, Frankfurt, Zurich, Oslo, Copenhagen and the rest, in one list. Every one checked by hand against its annual report.

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Peak is each company’s highest fiscal year-end share count since 2019. Updated 26 October 2026. Members see all 100 with the filing behind each.

1 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 2 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 3 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 4 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 5 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 6 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 7 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 8 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 9 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 10 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 11 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 12 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 13 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired 14 Member companyCountry 000M in '00, 000M now Filing↗ 00.0%retired

Why Europe

European companies report their share counts in a dozen languages and as many formats. Most screens copy one number and miss the treasury shares, the hybrid bonds and the share consolidations. Europe Radar reads the filings and checks every company by hand.

Sources: annual reports in the European single electronic format (ESEF), read through filings.xbrl.org, and for Germany and Switzerland the companies’ own annual reports. Shares outstanding are issued shares minus treasury shares at each fiscal year end. Every company in the list was checked by hand against its own annual report.