Management has an authorization to buyback up to 37.5 million Autoliv shares. At December 31, 2007, 6.9 million shares of the authorization remained to be utilized.
The current number of shares outstanding is updated daily, if needed, on the linked page above, "Share buybacks in 2008".
Shareholders
Autoliv estimates that approximately 80% of the shares in the Company are held in the U.S. and 5% in Sweden. Most of the remaining shares are held in the U.K. The number of shareholders is estimated to exceed 70,000.