Royal Caribbean Cruises Shares Outstanding History (RCL)

Royal Caribbean Cruises reported 270.5M shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2025.

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Royal Caribbean Cruises annual shares outstanding history

Royal Caribbean Cruises annual shares outstanding

Fiscal yearPeriod endedShares outstandingChangeGrowth
20252025-12-31270.5M1.4M+0.52%
20242024-12-31269.1M12.5M+4.86%
20232023-12-31256.7M1.3M+0.51%
20222022-12-31255.4M347,926+0.14%
20212021-12-31255.0M17.5M+7.35%
20202020-12-31237.5M28.5M+13.65%
20192019-12-31209.0M−186,582−0.09%
20182018-12-31209.2M−4.6M−2.13%
20172017-12-31213.7M−1.1M−0.49%
20162016-12-31214.8M−2.6M−1.20%
20152015-12-31217.4M−2.2M−1.01%
20142014-12-31219.6M−1.6M−0.72%
20132013-12-31221.2M2.0M+0.93%
20122012-12-31219.2M
20102010-12-31216.1M

Royal Caribbean Cruises Share Buyback History

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

Royal Caribbean Cruises used $1.16B to repurchase common stock in fy 2025. Across the latest 5 reported fiscal years, total share repurchases were $1.16B. The latest reported quarter showed $199.0M of share repurchases.

Royal Caribbean Cruises annual share buyback history
Fiscal yearPeriod endedShare repurchases
20252025-12-31$1.16B
20242024-12-31$0
20232023-12-31$0
20212021-12-31$0
20202020-12-31$0
20192019-12-31$99.6M
20182018-12-31$575.0M
20172017-12-31$225.0M
20162016-12-31$300.0M
20152015-12-31$200.0M

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.

Royal Caribbean Cruises shares outstanding trends

Over the last five fiscal years, Royal Caribbean Cruises's shares outstanding moved from 237.5M to 270.5M, a change of 33.0M. The latest reported quarter, Q2 2026, shows 267.5M.

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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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