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. On March 3, 2022, we announced an increase in our regular quarterly dividend from $0.70 per share to $0.88 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 16, 2022, there were 1,990 holders of record of our common stock.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
On February 16, 2021, our Board approved a $5.0 billion share repurchase program. On February 28, 2022, our Board approved a new $5.0 billion share repurchase authorization, replacing the then-existing program, which had $1.6 billion remaining available for repurchases as of January 29, 2022. There is no expiration date governing the period over which we can repurchase shares under this authorization. During fiscal 2022, we repurchased and retired 32.2 million shares at a cost of $3.5 billion. On March 3, 2022, we announced our plans to spend approximately $1.5 billion on share repurchases in fiscal 2023. Between the end of fiscal 2022 on January 29, 2022, and March 16, 2022, we repurchased an incremental 2.4 million shares of our common stock at a cost of $239 million. For additional information, see “Share Repurchases and Dividends” in Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and Note 9, Shareholders’ Equity, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included in Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Information regarding our repurchases of common stock during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 was as follows:
| Period | Total Numberof SharesPurchased | Average PricePaid per Share | Total Number of SharesPurchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program | Approximate Dollar Valueof Shares that May Yet BePurchased Under the Program**(1)** | |||||||||
| Oct. 31, 2021 through Nov. 27, 2021 | 3,028,950 | $ | 128.88 | 3,028,950 | $ | 2,971,571,060 | |||||||
| Nov. 28, 2021 through Jan. 1, 2022 | 9,708,461 | $ | 102.02 | 9,708,461 | $ | 1,981,118,947 | |||||||
| Jan. 2, 2022 through Jan. 29, 2022 | 3,628,413 | $ | 100.73 | 3,628,413 | $ | 1,615,616,656 | |||||||
| Total fiscal 2022 fourth quarter | 16,365,824 | $ | 106.71 | 16,365,824 | $ | 1,615,616,656 |
(1)On February 28, 2022, our Board approved a new $5.0 billion share repurchase authorization, replacing the existing program approved in February 2021. Share repurchases prior to February 28, 2022, will be made under the February 2021 share repurchase program and thereafter will be made under our February 2022 share repurchase program.
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 January 28, 2017, the last trading day of fiscal 2017, 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 | January 28, 2017 | February 3, 2018 | February 2, 2019 | February 1, 2020 | January 30, 2021 | January 29, 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | $ | 100.00 | $ | 167.99 | $ | 141.53 | $ | 210.84 | $ | 278.42 | $ | 256.34 | |||||||||||
| S&P 500 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 126.41 | $ | 123.48 | $ | 150.26 | $ | 176.18 | $ | 217.21 | |||||||||||
| S&P Retailing Group | $ | 100.00 | $ | 148.34 | $ | 159.89 | $ | 190.43 | $ | 278.09 | $ | 296.49 |
- Cumulative total return assumes dividend reinvestment.
Source: Research Data Group, Inc.
Ite****m 6. [Reserved].
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