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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

Our common stock has been listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market since June 27, 2013 under the symbol "CDW."

Holders

As of February 22, 2019, there were 19 holders of record of our common stock. The number of beneficial stockholders is substantially greater than the number of holders of record because a portion of our common stock is held through brokerage firms.

Dividends

On February 7, 2019, we announced that our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on our common stock of $0.295 per share. The dividend will be paid on March 12, 2019 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on February 25, 2019.

We expect to continue to pay quarterly cash dividends on our common stock in the future, but such payments remain at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon our results of operations, financial condition, business prospects, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, any potential indebtedness we may incur, restrictions imposed by applicable law, tax considerations and other factors that our Board of Directors deems relevant. In addition, our ability to pay dividends on our common stock will be limited by restrictions on our ability to pay dividends or make distributions to our stockholders and on the ability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends or make distributions to us, in each case, under the terms of our current and any future agreements governing our indebtedness. For a discussion of our cash resources and needs and restrictions on our ability to pay dividends, see "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources" included elsewhere in this report. For additional discussion of restrictions on our ability to pay dividends, see Note 9 (Long-Term Debt) to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

On August 3, 2017, we announced that our Board of Directors authorized a $750 million increase to our share repurchase program under which we may repurchase shares of our common stock in the open market through privately negotiated or other transactions, depending on share price, market conditions and other factors. On February 7, 2019, we announced that our Board of Directors authorized a $1.0 billion increase to our share repurchase program.

Information relating to the Company's purchases of its common stock during the quarter ended December 31, 2018 is as follows:

PeriodTotal Number of Shares Purchased (in millions)Average Price Paid per ShareTotal Number of Shares Purchased as Part of a Publicly Announced Program (in millions)Maximum Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet be Purchased Under the Program(1) (in millions)
October 1 through October 31, 20181.1$83.581.1$532.4
November 1 through November 30, 20181.1$89.221.1$433.4
December 1 through December 31, 20181.1$89.241.1$335.8
Total3.33.3
(1)The amounts presented in this column are the remaining total authorized value to be spent after each month's repurchases.

Stock Performance Graph

The information contained in this Stock 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate it by reference into a document filed under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return, calculated on a dividend reinvested basis, on $100.00 invested at the closing of the market on December 31, 2013 through and including the market close on December 31,

2018, with the cumulative total return for the same time period of the same amount invested in the S&P MidCap 400 index and a peer group index. Our peer group index for 2018 consists of the following companies: Anixter International, Inc., Arrow Electronics, Inc., Avnet, Inc., CGI Group Inc., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, DXC Technology Company, Genuine Parts Company, Henry Schein, Inc., Insight Enterprises, Inc., LKQ Corporation, Patterson Companies, Inc., SYNNEX Corporation, Tech Data Corporation, W.W. Grainger, Inc. and Wesco International, Inc. This peer group was selected based on a review of publicly available information about these companies and our determination that they met one or more of the following criteria: (i) similar size in terms of revenue and/or enterprise value (one-third to three times our revenue or enterprise value); (ii) operates in a business-to-business distribution environment; (iii) members of the technology industry; (iv) similar customers (i.e., business, government, healthcare, and education); (v) companies that provide services and/or solutions; (vi) similar EBITDA margins; (vii) comparable percentage of international sales; (viii) frequently identified as a peer by the other peer companies or Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.; or (ix) identified by the Company as a competitor.

Shareholder returns over the indicated period are based on historical data and should not be considered indicative of future shareholder returns.

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December 31, 2013December 31, 2014December 31, 2015December 31, 2016December 31, 2017December 31, 2018
CDW Corp$100$152$183$229$308$364
S&P MidCap 400 index$100$108$104$124$142$124
CDW Peers$100$109$107$133$151$127

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

None.

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