09-25-2016, 12:21 AM
(09-24-2016, 08:02 AM)Kerim Wrote: I noted the same thing about LMT. They had 393 million shares outstanding in 2008, and it was down to 303 million in 2016. That's almost a quarter of the shares in 8 years!
I don't have the full version of ycharts and I can't be arsed to dig into the quarterly reports for the 2008 numbers but those numbers are so close to RTNs that it's scary. They are down to 295 million from 374 million in the Summer of 2010. Though the speed of repurchases seems to be slowing down which is completely understandable with the recent jump in share prices.