Item 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Expeditors' common stock trades on The NASDAQ Global Select Market. The following table sets forth the high and low sale prices for our common stock as reported by The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol EXPD.

There were 801 shareholders of record as of February 20, 2018. This figure does not include a substantially greater number of beneficial holders of our common stock, whose shares are held of record by banks, brokers and other financial institutions.

The Board of Directors declared semi-annual dividends per share during the two most recent fiscal years paid as follows:

ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

In November 1993, Expeditors' Board of Directors authorized a Non-Discretionary Stock Repurchase Plan for the purpose of repurchasing our common stock in the open market with the proceeds received from the exercise of stock options. On February 9, 2009, the Plan was amended to increase the authorization to repurchase up to 40 million shares of our common stock. This authorization has no expiration date. This plan was disclosed in our annual report on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 1995. In the fourth quarter of 2017, we repurchased 778,977 shares of common stock under the Non-Discretionary Stock Repurchase Plan.

In November 2001, under a Discretionary Stock Repurchase Plan, Expeditors' Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of our common stock in the open market to reduce the issued and outstanding stock down to 200 million shares. In February 2014, the Board of Directors authorized repurchases down to 190 million shares of common stock outstanding. In February and August 2015 and May 2016, the Board of Directors further authorized repurchases down to 188 million, 180 million and 170 million, respectively. The maximum number of shares available for repurchase under this plan will increase as the total number of outstanding shares increases. This authorization has no expiration date. In the fourth quarter of 2017, we repurchased 1,352,602 shares of common stock under the Discretionary Stock Repurchase Plan. These discretionary repurchases included 355,765 shares that were made to limit the growth in the number of issued and outstanding shares resulting from stock option exercises and 996,837 shares to reduce the number of total shares outstanding.

The graph below compares Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.'s cumulative 5-Year total shareholder return on common stock with the cumulative total returns of the S&P 500 index, the NASDAQ Transportation index, and the NASDAQ Industrial Transportation index (NQUSB2770T) as a replacement for the NASDAQ Transportation index. The Company is making the modification to reference a specific transportation index and to source that data directly from NASDAQ. The graph assumes that the value of the investment in our common stock and in each of the indexes (including reinvestment of dividends) was $100 on 12/31/2012 and tracks it through 12/31/2017. Total return assumes reinvestment of dividends in each of the indices indicated.

COMPARISON OF 5-YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN

Among Expeditors International of Washington, Inc., the S&P 500 Index,

the NASDAQ Industrial Transportation Index and the

NASDAQ Transportation Index.

The stock price performance included in this graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.