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

Market Information

Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "HII".

Stockholders

The approximate number of our common stockholders was 13,903 as of February 4, 2022.

Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Our Annual Meeting of Stockholders is currently scheduled to be held on May 3, 2022. The meeting will be held either through a virtual format or in person in Newport News, Virginia.

Stock Performance Graph

The following graph compares the total return on a cumulative basis of $100 invested in our common stock on January 1, 2017, to the Standard & Poor's ("S&P") 500 Index and the S&P Aerospace and Defense Select Index.

(◦)The cumulative total return assumes reinvestment of dividends.

(◦)The S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Index is comprised of The Boeing Company, General Dynamics Corporation, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., L3 Harris Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Textron, Inc., and TransDigm Group Incorporated, among other companies.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

Repurchases under our stock repurchase program are made from time to time at management's discretion in accordance with applicable federal securities laws. All repurchases of HII common stock have been recorded as treasury stock. The following table summarizes information relating to purchases made by or on behalf of the Company of shares of the Company's common stock during the quarter ended December 31, 2021.


Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased	Average Price Paid per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program	Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program (in millions)1,2
October 1, 2021 to October 31, 2021	22,551	$	205.84	22,551	$	1,050.8
November 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021	22,253	190.40		22,253	1,046.5
December 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021	30,200	183.50		30,200	1,041.0
Total	75,004	$	192.26	75,004	$	1,041.0

1 From the stock repurchase program's inception through December 31, 2021, we purchased 13,395,300 shares at an average price of $161.18 per share for a total of $2.2 billion.

2 In October 2012, we commenced our stock repurchase program. In November 2019, we announced an increase in the stock repurchase program to $3.2 billion and an extension of the term to October 31, 2024.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

For information regarding securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans, see Note 18: Stock Compensation Plans in Item 8 and Equity Compensation Plan Information in Item 12.

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