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Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

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Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

Market Information and Dividends

Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BBY. In fiscal 2004, our Board initiated the payment of a regular quarterly cash dividend with respect to shares of our common stock. A quarterly cash dividend has been paid in each subsequent quarter. In addition, our Board approved a special dividend that was declared and paid in the first quarter of each of fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2017. On March 1, 2017, we announced a 21% increase in our regular quarterly dividend to $0.34 per share. Future dividend payments will depend on our earnings, capital requirements, financial condition and other factors considered relevant by our Board. The table below sets forth the high and low sales prices of our common stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange – Composite Index and the dividends declared and paid during the periods indicated.

Sales PriceDividends Declared and Paid
Fiscal 2017Fiscal 2016Fiscal Year
HighLowHighLow20172016
First Quarter$34.95$26.10$42.00$34.13$0.73$0.74
Second Quarter33.6328.7637.1831.680.280.23
Third Quarter40.5832.0239.1028.320.280.23
Fourth Quarter49.4037.1036.5125.310.280.23

Holders

As of March 20, 2017, there were 2,566 holders of record of our common stock.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

In June 2011, our Board authorized up to $5.0 billion of share repurchases, which became effective on June 21, 2011. There is no expiration date governing the period over which we can repurchase shares under the June 2011 program. During fiscal 2017, we repurchased and retired 21.1 million shares at a cost of $0.8 billion. At the end of fiscal 2017, $2.2 billion of the $5.0 billion of share repurchases authorized by our Board in June 2011 was available for future share repurchases. In February 2017, our Board approved a new $5 billion share repurchase authorization, which superseded the authorization from 2011. On March 1, 2017, we announced our intent to repurchase $3 billion of shares over the next two years.

The following table presents the total number of shares of our common stock that we purchased during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, the average price paid per share, the number of shares that we purchased as part of our publicly announced repurchase program and the approximate dollar value of shares that still could have been repurchased at the end of the applicable fiscal period, pursuant to our June 2011 $5.0 billion share repurchase program:

Fiscal PeriodTotal Number of Shares PurchasedAverage Price Paid per ShareTotal Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced ProgramApproximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program(1)
Oct. 30, 2016 through Nov. 26, 20161,534,476$40.091,534,476$2,399,000,000
Nov. 27, 2016 through Dec. 31, 20161,705,027$46.131,705,027$2,321,000,000
Jan. 1, 2017 through Jan. 28, 20171,900,057$43.501,900,057$2,238,000,000
Total Fiscal 2017 Fourth Quarter5,139,560$43.355,139,560$2,238,000,000
(1)At the beginning of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, there was $2.5 billion available for share repurchases under our June 2011 $5.0 billion share repurchase program. The "Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program" reflects the $223 million we purchased in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 pursuant to such program. For additional information, see Note 7, Shareholders' Equity, of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Best Buy Stock Comparative Performance Graph

The information contained in this Best Buy Stock Comparative Performance Graph section shall not be deemed to be "soliciting material" or "filed" or incorporated by reference in future filings with the SEC, or subject to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate it by reference into a document filed under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.

The graph below compares the cumulative total shareholder return on our common stock for the last five fiscal years with the cumulative total return on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ("S&P 500"), of which we are a component, and the Standard & Poor's Retailing Group Industry Index ("S&P Retailing Group"), of which we are also a component. The S&P Retailing Group is a capitalization-weighted index of domestic equities traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ and includes high-capitalization stocks representing the retail sector of the S&P 500.

The graph assumes an investment of $100 at the close of trading on March 2, 2012, the last trading day of fiscal 2012, in our common stock, the S&P 500 and the S&P Retailing Group.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*

Among Best Buy Co., Inc., the S&P 500 and the S&P Retailing Group

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Fiscal Year201220132014201520162017
Best Buy Co., Inc.$100.00$68.66$102.94$157.58$129.90$211.63
S&P 500100.00111.94136.02155.37154.34185.27
S&P Retailing Group100.00123.88156.39188.05221.02261.85
  • Cumulative total return assumes dividend reinvestment.

Source: Research Data Group, Inc.

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