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
Fox Corporation’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), and Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class B Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”), are listed and traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbols “FOXA” and “FOX,” respectively. As of June 30, 2024, there were approximately 14,100 holders of record of shares of Class A Common Stock and approximately 3,000 holders of record of shares of Class B Common Stock.
We expect to continue to pay semi-annual dividends, although each dividend is subject to approval by the Company’s Board of Directors (See Note 11—Stockholders’ Equity to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements under the heading “Dividends”).
Below is a summary of the Company’s repurchases of its Class A Common Stock during fiscal 2024:
| Total number of shares purchased**(a)** | Average price paid per share**(b)** | Approximate dollar value of shares that may yet be purchased under the program**(b)(c)** | |||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | |||||||||||||||||
| First quarter fiscal 2024(d) | 15,437,627 | $ | 16.19 | ||||||||||||||
| Second quarter fiscal 2024 | 8,275,629 | 30.21 | |||||||||||||||
| Third quarter fiscal 2024 | 8,347,054 | 29.95 | |||||||||||||||
| April 1, 2024 - April 30, 2024 | 1,609,334 | 31.07 | |||||||||||||||
| May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024 | 3,061,001 | 33.33 | |||||||||||||||
| June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024 | 2,885,073 | 33.96 | |||||||||||||||
| Total fiscal 2024(d) | 39,615,718 | 25.24 | $ | 1,400 |
| (a) | The Company has not made any purchases of Common Stock other than in connection with the publicly announced stock repurchase program described below. | |||||||||||||
| (b) | These amounts exclude any fees, commissions, excise taxes or other costs associated with the share repurchases. | |||||||||||||
| (c) | The Company’s Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program, under which the Company can repurchase $7 billion of Common Stock. The program has no time limit and may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time. | |||||||||||||
| (d) | In February 2023, in connection with the stock repurchase program, the Company entered into an accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”) agreement in which the Company paid a third-party financial institution $1 billion and received an initial delivery of approximately 22.5 million shares of Class A Common Stock, representing 80% of the shares expected to be repurchased under the ASR agreement, at a price of $35.54 per share. Upon settlement of the ASR agreement in August 2023, the Company received a final delivery of approximately 7.8 million shares of Class A Common Stock. The final number of shares purchased under the ASR agreement was determined using a price of $33.03 per share (the volume-weighted average market price of the Class A Common Stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market during the term of the ASR agreement less a discount) (See Note 11—Stockholders’ Equity to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements under the heading “Stock Repurchase Program”). |
In total, the Company repurchased approximately 40 million shares of Class A Common Stock for approximately $1 billion during fiscal 2024.
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