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
Our common stock has traded under the symbol DECK on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) since May 2014 and was previously traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
As of May 13, 2021, we had 39 stockholders of record based on the records of our transfer agent, which does not include beneficial owners of our common stock whose shares are held in the names of various securities brokers, dealers and registered clearing agencies.
We did not sell any equity securities during the year ended March 31, 2021 that were not registered under the Securities Act.
Stock Performance Graph
Below is a graph comparing the percentage change in the cumulative total return on our common stock against the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods Index and the NYSE Composite Index for the five fiscal-year periods commencing April 1, 2016 and ended March 31, 2021. Total return assumes reinvestment of dividends, though we have not declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock since our inception. The data represented in the graph below assumes one hundred dollars invested in our common stock, the S&P 500 Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods Index and the NYSE Composite Index on April 1, 2016.

| April 1, | Years Ended March 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation | $ | 100.0 | $ | 99.7 | $ | 150.3 | $ | 245.4 | $ | 223.7 | $ | 551.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods Index | 100.0 | 79.5 | 101.9 | 98.7 | 49.1 | 100.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The NYSE Composite Index | 100.0 | 115.6 | 128.6 | 134.8 | 112.4 | 174.2 |
The stock performance graph and related information shall not be deemed incorporated by reference by any general statement incorporating by reference into this Annual Report into any filing under the Securities Act, or under the Exchange Act, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate this information by reference and shall not otherwise be deemed filed under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
Dividend Policy
We have not declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock since our inception. We currently do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends. Our current revolving credit agreements allow us to declare and pay cash dividends, as long as we do not exceed certain leverage ratios and no event of default has occurred.
Stock Repurchase Programs
In January 2019, our Board of Directors approved an additional authorization to its stock repurchase program to repurchase $261,000 of our common stock in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, subject to market conditions, applicable legal requirements, and other factors (our stock repurchase program). As of March 31, 2021, the aggregate remaining approved amount under our stock repurchase program was $60,660.
Below is a summary of stock repurchase activity under our stock repurchase program during the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2021:
| Total number of shares repurchased* | Average price paid per share | Dollar value of shares repurchased | Dollar value of shares remaining for repurchase | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| January 1 - January 31, 2021 | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 159,807 | |||||||||||||||||||
| February 1 - February 28, 2021 | 192,361 | 323.33 | 62,196 | 97,611 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 1 - March 31, 2021 | 114,719 | 322.10 | 36,951 | 60,660 |
*Any share repurchases are made as part of publicly announced programs in open-market transactions.
Our Board of Directors approved an additional authorization of $750,000 during April 2021 to repurchase our common stock under the same conditions as the prior stock repurchase program. Subsequent to March 31, 2021 through May 13, 2021, we repurchased 70,881 shares for $23,466 at an average price of $331.06 per share, and had $787,194 remaining authorized under the stock repurchase program.
Our stock repurchase program does not obligate us to acquire any amount of common stock and may be suspended at any time at our discretion.
Refer to Part II, Item 7, “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” under the heading “Liquidity and Capital Resources” and Note 10, “Stockholders' Equity,” of our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes thereto (referred to herein as the consolidated financial statements) in Part IV within this Annual Report for further information on repurchases of our common stock.
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