Johnson & Johnson Shares Outstanding History (JNJ)

Johnson & Johnson reported 2.41B shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2025.

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Johnson & Johnson annual shares outstanding history

Johnson & Johnson annual shares outstanding

Fiscal yearPeriod endedShares outstandingChangeGrowth
20252025-12-282.41B2.3M+0.09%
20242024-12-292.41B−1.2M−0.05%
20232023-12-312.41B−195.5M−7.51%
20222023-01-012.60B−25.0M−0.95%
20212022-01-022.63B588,334+0.02%
20202021-01-042.63B−6.0M−0.23%
20192019-12-292.63B−28.4M−1.07%
20182018-12-302.66B−19.8M−0.74%
20172017-12-312.68B−30.4M−1.12%
20162017-01-012.71B−46.0M−1.67%
20152016-01-032.76B−21.1M−0.76%
20142014-12-282.78B−48.4M−1.71%
20132013-12-292.83B33.6M+1.20%
20122012-12-302.80B50.2M+1.83%
20112012-01-012.75B9.9M+0.36%
20102011-01-022.74B−16.7M−0.61%
20092010-01-032.75B

Johnson & Johnson Share Buyback History

A share buyback, also called a stock repurchase, is when a company uses cash to buy its own shares. Johnson & Johnson 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.

Johnson & Johnson used $5.95B to repurchase common stock in fy 2025. Across the latest 5 reported fiscal years, total share repurchases were $22.93B. The latest reported quarter showed $221.0M of share repurchases.

Johnson & Johnson annual share buyback history
Fiscal yearPeriod endedShare repurchases
20252025-12-28$5.95B
20242024-12-29$2.43B
20232023-12-31$5.05B
20222023-01-01$6.04B
20212022-01-02$3.46B
20202021-01-04$3.22B
20192019-12-29$6.75B
20182018-12-30$5.87B
20172017-12-31$6.36B
20162017-01-01$8.98B

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.

Johnson & Johnson shares outstanding trends

Over the last five fiscal years, Johnson & Johnson's shares outstanding moved from 2.63B to 2.41B, a change of −218.8M. The latest reported quarter, Q2 2026, shows 2.41B.

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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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