Shares change

Change in diluted share count

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Growth — Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

How it 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.

How to read it

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

Which figures it needs

Computed from 1 figure taken from the filing:

• diluted_shares

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

• WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding
• WeightedAverageNumberOfSharesOutstandingDiluted
• WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstandingDiluted

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Growth on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.