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 is traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Market® under the symbol “DLTR.” As of March 3, 2023, we had 2,125 shareholders of record.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
During fiscal 2022, fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020, we repurchased 4,613,696, 9,156,898 and 3,982,478 shares of common stock, respectively, on the open market at a total cost of $647.5 million, $950.0 million and $400.0 million, respectively. The fiscal 2022 share repurchases occurred prior to the fourth quarter. As of January 28, 2023, we had $1.85 billion remaining under our Board repurchase authorization. The repurchase authorization does not have an expiration date.
Stockholder Matters
We anticipate that substantially all of our cash flow from operations in the foreseeable future will be retained for the development and expansion of our business, the repayment of indebtedness and, as authorized by our Board of Directors, the repurchase of stock. We do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph sets forth the yearly percentage change in the cumulative total shareholder return on our common stock during the five fiscal years ended January 28, 2023, compared with the cumulative total returns of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Retailing Index. The comparison assumes that $100 was invested in our common stock on February 3, 2018, and, in each of the foregoing indices on February 3, 2018, and that dividends were reinvested. The stock price performance shown in the graph is not necessarily indicative of future price performance.

| Year Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||
| February 3, 2018 | February 2, 2019 | February 1, 2020 | January 30, 2021 | January 29, 2022 | January 28, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Dollar Tree, Inc. | $ | 100.00 | $ | 88.84 | $ | 80.01 | $ | 93.41 | $ | 118.06 | $ | 138.17 | ||||||||
| S&P 500 Index | 100.00 | 97.69 | 118.87 | 139.37 | 171.83 | 157.71 | ||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Retailing Index | 100.00 | 108.42 | 127.45 | 180.19 | 195.77 | 160.10 |
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