The lowest change in diluted share count

Change in diluted share count

Ranked from the filings of the companies this site has read, under . 50 of them report a figure for this; the rest are absent rather than ranked last, because a filing that does not carry a number is not a company that scores badly on it.

#CompanyShares change
1 COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW COST 0.01%
2 NLI HOLDINGS, INC. NL 0.03%
3 VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC / MA VRTX 0.04%
4 Dynatrace, Inc. DT 0.04%
5 The Chemours Company CC 0.04%
6 ALEXANDERS INC ALX 0.05%
7 UBIQUITI INC. UI 0.06%
8 PROGRESSIVE CORP/OH/ PGR 0.07%
9 SLB LIMITED/NV SLB 0.07%
10 FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST, INC. FR 0.07%
11 Everpure, Inc. P 0.08%
12 CME GROUP INC. CME 0.10%
13 ALBEMARLE CORPORATION ALB 0.13%
14 Philip Morris International Inc. PM 0.13%
15 KINDER MORGAN, INC. KMI 0.14%
16 AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION AMT 0.14%
17 THE AES CORPORATION AES 0.14%
18 MP Materials Corp. / DE MP 0.14%
19 Williams Companies, Inc. WMB 0.16%
20 FIRSTENERGY CORP FE 0.17%
21 Amgen Inc. AMGN 0.18%
22 VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC VZ 0.19%
23 QNITY ELECTRONICS, INC. Q 0.19%
24 PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC PANW 0.20%
25 WASTE MANAGEMENT INC WM 0.20%
26 HOME DEPOT, INC. HD 0.20%
27 Accendra Health, Inc. ACH 0.20%
28 HELMERICH & PAYNE, INC. HP 0.21%
29 FUTUREFUEL CORP. FF 0.22%
30 Starbucks Corporation SBUX 0.22%
31 PFIZER INC PFE 0.23%
32 STRYKER CORP SYK 0.23%
33 CELANESE CORPORATION CE 0.23%
34 AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. AVB 0.26%
35 Entegris, Inc. ENTG 0.26%
36 Shopify Inc. SHOP 0.26%
37 Regional Management Corp. RM 0.27%
38 COPART, INC. CPRT 0.28%
39 Carnival Corporation Ltd. CCL 0.29%
40 AMERICAN ASSETS TRUST, INC. AAT 0.29%
41 MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES, INC. MAA 0.32%
42 ALAMO GROUP INC. ALG 0.33%
43 Prologis, Inc. PLD 0.34%
44 DOLLAR GENERAL CORP DG 0.36%
45 ALLIANT ENERGY CORP LNT 0.39%
46 SAUL CENTERS, INC. BFS 0.40%
47 Arcosa, Inc. ACA 0.41%
48 ServiceNow, Inc. NOW 0.44%
49 BrightView Holdings, Inc. BV 0.44%
50 MISSION PRODUCE, INC. AVO 0.45%

How this measure is worked out

Change in the diluted share count over a year

Positive means shares were issued and each existing share owns a little less of the company; negative means net buybacks. Stock splits are detected and divided out first, so a split is not read as issuance.

low is good; a negative reading is net buyback. Partly inside the revenue measures already, which are per share — this isolates the share count on its own

More about Shares change, and the XBRL tags behind it

What this ranking is not

It is not advice, and a high place is not a recommendation. A company can lead on one measure and fail on every other; that is the reason this site scores five dimensions rather than one and lets you weigh them yourself.

It also ranks only what has been read. A company whose filings are not in this database cannot appear here however well it would have done, and a company whose filing does not tag this figure is absent rather than last.

Worked out on 2026-08-24.

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