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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table includes information about our common stock repurchases during the three-month period ended December 31, 2020.
| Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased(1) | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Programs(1) | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that may yet be Purchased Under the Program(1) | |||||||||||||||||||
| October 1, 2020 through October 31, 2020 | — | $ | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| November 1, 2020 through November 30, 2020 | — | $ | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| December 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 | 6,343,100 | $ | 78.85 | 6,343,100 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 6,343,100 | $ | 78.85 | 6,343,100 | $ | 1,897,272,535 |
(1)On July 25, 2012, we announced that our Board of Directors authorized us to repurchase up to $2.0 billion of our common stock on the open market or in private transactions. The Board of Directors increased this authority by $1.5 billion in each of November 2016 and February 2018, by an additional $2.0 billion in November 2018 and by an additional $1.5 billion in October 2020. During the fourth quarter of 2020, we repurchased approximately 6.3 million shares for $500 million in cash pursuant to this authority through a Rule 10b5-1 purchase plan. The remaining authorization under this program totaled approximately $1.9 billion at December 31, 2020. This program does not have an expiration date.
Market Information and Holders of our Common Stock
Our common stock is listed on the New York, Chicago and SIX Swiss stock exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange is the principal market on which our common stock is traded under the symbol “BAX”. As of January 29, 2021, there were 22,017 holders of record of our common stock.
Performance Graph
The following graph compares the change in our cumulative total stockholder return (including reinvested dividends) on our common stock with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Index and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Health Care Index over the past five years.
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