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Item 5. Market for the Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol “A”. The following table sets forth the high and low sale prices and the dividend declarations per quarter for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years as reported in the consolidated transaction reporting system for the New York Stock Exchange:
| Fiscal 2016 | High | Low | Dividends | |||||||||
| First Quarter (ended January 31, 2016) | $ | 42.48 | $ | 36.01 | $ | 0.115 | ||||||
| Second Quarter (ended April 30, 2016) | $ | 42.00 | $ | 34.15 | $ | 0.115 | ||||||
| Third Quarter (ended July 31, 2016) | $ | 48.18 | $ | 40.39 | $ | 0.115 | ||||||
| Fourth Quarter (ended October 31, 2016) | $ | 48.63 | $ | 43.11 | $ | 0.115 | ||||||
| Fiscal 2017 | High | Low | Dividends | |||||||||
| First Quarter (ended January 31, 2017) | $ | 49.48 | $ | 42.92 | $ | 0.132 | ||||||
| Second Quarter (ended April 30, 2017) | $ | 55.51 | $ | 48.47 | $ | 0.132 | ||||||
| Third Quarter (ended July 31, 2017) | $ | 61.84 | $ | 55.36 | $ | 0.132 | ||||||
| Fourth Quarter (ended October 31, 2017) | $ | 68.52 | $ | 58.22 | $ | 0.132 |
As of December 1, 2017, there were 23,445 common stockholders of record.
During fiscal 2017, we issued four quarterly dividends of $0.132 per share. All decisions regarding the declaration and payment of dividends are at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will be evaluated regularly in light of our financial condition, earnings, growth prospects, funding requirements, applicable law, and any other factors that our Board deems relevant. The information required by this item with respect to equity compensation plans is included under the caption Equity Compensation Plans in our proxy statement for the annual meeting of stockholders to be held March 21, 2018, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A, and is incorporated herein by reference.
STOCK PRICE PERFORMANCE GRAPH
The graph below shows the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Index and our peer group, consisting of all companies in the Health Care and Materials Indexes of the S&P 500, assuming an initial investment of $100 on October 31, 2012 and the reinvestment of all dividends. The cumulative returns on our common stock have also been adjusted to reflect the spin-off of our electronic measurement business into an independent publicly traded company called Keysight Technologies, Inc. on November 1, 2014.
Agilent’s stock price performance shown in the following graph is not indicative of future stock price performance. The data for this performance graph was compiled for us by Standard and Poor’s.
| INDEXED RETURNS | |||||||||||
| Base | Years Ending | ||||||||||
| Period | |||||||||||
| Company Name / Index | 10/31/2012 | 10/31/2013 | 10/31/2014 | 10/31/2015 | 10/31/2016 | 10/31/2017 | |||||
| Agilent Technologies | 100 | 142.52 | 156.67 | 148.68 | 173.38 | 273.31 | |||||
| S&P 500 | 100 | 127.18 | 149.14 | 156.89 | 163.97 | 202.72 | |||||
| Peer Group | 100 | 133.00 | 165.85 | 176.13 | 171.91 | 213.11 |
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
The table below summarizes information about the Company’s purchases, based on trade date; of its equity securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act during the quarterly period ended October 31, 2017. The total number of shares of common stock purchased by the Company during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2017 is 3,956,816 shares.
| Period | Total Number of Shares of Common Stock Purchased(1) | Weighted Average Price Paid per Share of Common Stock(2) | Total Number of Shares of Common Stock Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs(1) | Maximum Approximate Dollar Value of Shares of Common Stock that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (in millions)(1) | ||||||||||
| Aug. 1, 2017 through Aug. 31, 2017 | — | — | — | $ | 610 | |||||||||
| Sep. 1, 2017 through Sep. 30, 2017 | — | — | — | $ | 610 | |||||||||
| Oct. 1, 2017 through Oct. 31, 2017 | — | $ | — | — | $ | 610 | ||||||||
| Total | — | $ | — | — |
| (1) | On May 28, 2015, we announced that our board of directors had approved a new share repurchase program (the "2015 repurchase program"). The 2015 repurchase program authorizes the purchase of up to $1.14 billion of our common stock through and including November 1, 2018. The 2015 repurchase program does not require the company to acquire a specific number of shares and may be suspended or discontinued at any time. As of October 31, 2017, all repurchased shares have been retired. |
| (2) | The weighted average price paid per share of common stock does not include the cost of commissions. |
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