Canadian Natural Resources Shares Outstanding History (CNQ)

Canadian Natural Resources reported 2.08B shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2025.

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Canadian Natural Resources annual shares outstanding history

Canadian Natural Resources annual shares outstanding

Fiscal yearPeriod endedShares outstandingChangeGrowth
20252026-03-042.08B−21.4M−1.02%
2024 · Dec 312025-12-312.08B−21.4M−1.02%
2024 · Mar 52025-03-052.10B1.03B+96.10%
2023 · Dec 312024-12-312.10B−41.8M−1.95%
2023 · Feb 282024-02-281.07B−30.2M−2.74%
2022 · Dec 312023-12-312.14B−60.5M−2.74%
2022 · Mar 12023-03-011.10B−65.7M−5.63%
2021 · Dec 312022-12-312.21B
2021 · Mar 22022-03-021.17B−15.5M−1.31%
2020 · Mar 32021-03-031.18B
2019 · Apr 42020-04-041.19B
2018 · Mar 62019-03-061.20B
20172017-12-311.22B

Canadian Natural Resources Share Buyback History

A share buyback, also called a stock repurchase, is when a company uses cash to buy its own shares. Canadian Natural Resources share buyback history shows the reported cash used for repurchases. Buybacks can reduce shares outstanding, but issuance, stock-based compensation, acquisitions, and stock splits can change the share count separately.

Canadian Natural Resources used $1.45B to repurchase common stock in fy 2024. Across the latest 4 reported fiscal years, total share repurchases were $13.00B. The latest reported quarter showed $1.10B of share repurchases.

Canadian Natural Resources annual share buyback history
Fiscal yearPeriod endedShare repurchases
20242025-12-31$1.45B
20232024-12-31$2.66B
20222023-12-31$3.32B
20212022-12-31$5.57B

TickerStat uses SEC-reported cash payments for common-stock repurchases. The amounts describe capital returned through buybacks; they are not a forecast or a measure of the number of shares retired.

Canadian Natural Resources shares outstanding trends

Over the last five fiscal years, Canadian Natural Resources's shares outstanding moved from 1.18B to 2.08B, a change of 897.7M. The latest reported quarter, Q2 2026, shows 2.07B.

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What shares outstanding means

Shares outstanding is the number of common shares held by investors at a reporting-period end. The count can change because of stock issuance, repurchases, conversions, acquisitions, or stock splits.

Calculation and source

SEC-reported period-end shares

TickerStat displays period-end common shares from SEC filings and adjusts older values to the current share basis when a stock-split conversion ratio is reported directly or evidenced by a later filing’s restated historical share balance. After repeated reverse splits, an old period can represent less than one current-basis share; this is a split-adjusted equivalent, not a literal historical certificate count. Values remain as reported when no reliable split ratio is available. Fiscal periods can differ from calendar years, so exact period-end dates are included.

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