Name: CF Industries (CF) shares outstanding since 2006, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 2006 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2006, 55,027,7232026-08-03, 151,338,130

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

A share bought in 2015

1.5× more of CF Industries today, without buying another share. It was one of 233,082,556 shares then. It is one of 151,338,130 now.

Every filing we read20 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2006	2006-02-28	55,027,723	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-12-31	55,700,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2008	2008-12-31	48,391,584	10-K
2009	2010-01-29	48,577,784	10-K
2010	2011-01-31	71,297,936	10-K
2011	2012-01-31	65,476,102	10-K
2012	2013-01-31	63,004,257	10-K
2013	2014-01-31	55,465,880	10-K
2014	2015-01-31	47,907,912	10-K
2015	2016-01-29	233,082,556	10-K
2016	2017-01-31	233,114,691	10-K
2017	2018-01-31	233,292,049	10-K
2018	2019-01-31	222,890,557	10-K
2019	2020-01-31	216,171,177	10-K
2020	2021-01-29	214,159,740	10-K
2021	2022-01-31	207,304,882	10-K
2022	2023-01-31	195,768,339	10-K
2023	2024-01-31	188,337,896	10-K
2024	2025-01-31	169,536,803	10-K
2025	2026-01-30	153,668,821	10-K

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

What the buybacks cost, since fiscal 2018cash flow statement against share count

$6.3Bspent on buybacks

82Mfewer shares outstanding

$77spent per share that actually disappeared

$264Mpaid 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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Insider buying, last 12 months

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

The story

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