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 ("NYSE") 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 February 28, 2019, we announced an increase in our regular quarterly dividend from $0.45 per share to $0.50 per share. Future dividend payments will depend on our earnings, capital requirements, financial condition and other factors considered relevant by our Board.
Holders
As of March 26, 2019, there were 267,804,388 holders of record of our common stock.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
On February 23, 2019, our Board authorized a new $3.0 billion share repurchase program that superseded the previous $5.0 billion authorization from February 2017, which had $1.5 billion remaining as of February 2, 2019. There is no expiration date governing the period over which we can repurchase shares under the February 2019 authorization. During fiscal 2019, we repurchased and retired 21.2 million shares at a cost of $1.5 billion. Between the end of fiscal 2019 and March 26, 2019, we repurchased an incremental 0.9 million shares of our common stock at a cost of $62 million.
The following table presents the total number of shares of our common stock that we purchased during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, 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 may yet be purchased at the end of the applicable fiscal period, pursuant to our February 2017 $5.0 billion share repurchase program:
| Fiscal Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program(1) | |||||||||
| Nov. 4, 2018 through Dec. 1, 2018 | 2,222,495 | $ | 65.88 | 2,222,495 | $ | 1,739,000,000 | |||||||
| Dec. 2, 2018 through Jan. 5, 2019 | 2,393,284 | $ | 56.10 | 2,393,284 | $ | 1,604,000,000 | |||||||
| Jan. 6, 2019 through Feb. 2, 2019 | 1,184,372 | $ | 57.43 | 1,184,372 | $ | 1,536,000,000 | |||||||
| Total fiscal 2019 fourth quarter | 5,800,151 | $ | 60.12 | 5,800,151 | $ | 1,536,000,000 |
| (1) | At the beginning of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, there was $1.9 billion available for share repurchases under our February 2017 $5.0 billion share repurchase program. The "Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program" column reflects the $349 million we purchased in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019 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 February 1, 2014, the last trading day of fiscal 2014, 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

| Fiscal Years Ended | February 1, 2014 | January 31, 2015 | January 30, 2016 | January 28, 2017 | February 3, 2018 | February 2, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | $ | 100.00 | $ | 153.08 | $ | 126.20 | $ | 205.59 | $ | 345.38 | $ | 290.98 | |||||||||||
| S&P 500 | 100.00 | 114.22 | 113.46 | 136.20 | 172.17 | 168.19 | |||||||||||||||||
| S&P Retailing Group | 100.00 | 119.10 | 140.73 | 167.11 | 241.08 | 256.26 |
- Cumulative total return assumes dividend reinvestment.
Source: Research Data Group, Inc.
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