The Carlyle Group (CG) Shares Outstanding: History & Chart

The Carlyle Group Inc.(CG)

Asset Management · Washington, DC

$38.92-0.40 (-1.02%)

Delayed quote: Oct 6, 2026, 9:40 AM EDT

About The Carlyle Group Inc.

The Carlyle Group Inc. is a leading global investment firm that employs both direct investment and fund-of-fund strategies. Its direct investment expertise is extensive, encompassing management-led leveraged buyouts, privatizations, and divestitures, as well as strategic minority equity investments. The firm also allocates capital to structured credit opportunities, global distressed and corporate situations, and small-to-middle market enterprises. Its venture and growth capital activities span the full spectrum, from seed/startup and early-stage funding to emerging growth, turnaround situations, mid-venture, late-venture, and Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPES). Carlyle structures its investments across four primary segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Market Strategies, and Solutions. Carlyle's investment interests are remarkably broad, covering an extensive array of sectors worldwide. These include major industries like industrials (such as manufacturing, building products, chemicals, and metals), consumer and retail (including food and beverage, consumer products, and services), aerospace and defense, technology (covering software, semiconductors, and communications infrastructure), healthcare (services, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices), energy and power, real estate (from office and hotel properties to residential and specialized segments like student housing and senior living), financial services, transportation, telecommunications, media, business services, agribusiness, fintech, utilities, and gaming. The firm actively seeks out growing businesses, including those with overleveraged balance sheets. Typically, Carlyle aims to hold its investments for four to six years, although some may be held for three to five years, with specific mandates for automotive and transportation sector holdings also falling within the four-to-six-year range. With a significant global footprint, Carlyle actively invests across North America (including specific U.S. regions, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru), Europe (encompassing Western, Central-Eastern, and Nordic regions), Asia (including India, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, and China), Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and both Sub-Saharan and North Africa. The firm has particular geographic interests, such as focusing on the food, financial, and healthcare industries in Western China, and in Japan, it specifically targets companies valued between $100 million and $150 million, avoiding those with over 1,000 employees. Financially, Carlyle typically commits $1 million to $50 million for venture investments and $50 million to $2 billion for buyouts. It targets companies with an enterprise value between $31.57 million and $1 billion, sales ranging from $10 million to $500 million, a market capitalization exceeding $50 million, and EBITDA between $5 million and $25 million. Carlyle is flexible regarding its ownership stake, often taking either a majority or a minority position, and frequently acts as the lead equity investor, originating and structuring transactions. The Carlyle Group Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It maintains a robust global presence with additional offices in 21 countries across five continents: North America, South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Washington, DC

2,500 employees

www.carlyle.com

Financial Services / Asset Management

Sector: Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
CEO: Harvey Mitchell Schwartz

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Latest FMP share-count observation

Shares outstanding

359,974,000

Float shares

261,672,610

Source: FMP shares-float. FMP feed updated 2026-10-05 21:07:55 (timezone not supplied). The feed does not specify the effective date of this share count.

Shares outstanding measure the share count in the provider observation. Basic and diluted weighted averages below are EPS calculation inputs. Differences between these counts do not measure new issuance or buybacks.

Weighted-average shares by quarterly statement

FMP normalized EPS denominators, labeled by statement period end. These are weighted averages, not current shares outstanding. The provider's period duration may include year-to-date values.

Statement period	Period end	Weighted average basic shares	Weighted average diluted shares
Q2 FY2026	2026-06-30	357,800,000	367,300,000
Q1 FY2026	2026-03-31	359,200,000	359,200,000
Q4 FY2025	2025-12-31	358,800,000	373,900,000
Q3 FY2025	2025-09-30	360,100,000	376,500,000
Q2 FY2025	2025-06-30	360,400,000	367,000,000
Q1 FY2025	2025-03-31	359,464,272	366,336,892
Q4 FY2024	2024-12-31	357,400,000	370,900,000
Q3 FY2024	2024-09-30	356,706,587	365,460,123
Q2 FY2024	2024-06-30

Weighted-average shares by annual statement

FMP normalized EPS denominators, labeled by statement period end. These are weighted averages, not current shares outstanding. The provider's period duration may include year-to-date values.

Statement period	Period end	Weighted average basic shares	Weighted average diluted shares
2025	2025-12-31	359,700,000	370,900,000
2024	2024-12-31	358,584,203	368,024,612
2023	2023-12-31	361,395,823	361,395,823
2022	2022-12-31	361,278,064	365,707,722
2021	2021-12-31	355,241,653	362,574,564
2020	2020-12-31	350,464,315	358,393,802
2019	2019-12-31	113,082,733	122,632,889
2018	2018-12-31	104,198,089	113,389,443
2017	2017-12-31	92,136,959

Shares Outstanding: 359,974,000

Latest FMP share-count observation

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Weighted-average shares by quarterly statement

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