Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
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Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
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PART II
| Item 5. | Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities |
Market Information and Dividends
Our common stock began trading publicly on the NYSE under the symbol "HLT" on December 12, 2013. As of December 31, 2016, there were approximately 35 holders of record of our common stock. This stockholder figure does not include a substantially greater number of holders whose shares are held of record by banks, brokers and other financial institutions. On January 3, 2017, we completed a 1-for-3 Reverse Stock Split of our outstanding common stock.
We declared regular quarterly cash dividends beginning in the third quarter of 2015 and expect to continue paying regular dividends on a quarterly basis. Any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the sole discretion of our board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, cash requirements, financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. Because we are a holding company and have no direct operations, we will only be able to pay dividends from funds we receive from our subsidiaries. The following table presents the high and low sales prices for our common stock as reported by the NYSE and the cash dividends we declared for the last two fiscal years, adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split, but not the spin-offs:
| Dividends | |||||||||||
| Stock Price | Declared per | ||||||||||
| High | Low | Share | |||||||||
| Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2016 | |||||||||||
| First Quarter | $ | 68.67 | $ | 48.48 | $ | 0.21 | |||||
| Second Quarter | 70.80 | 60.75 | 0.21 | ||||||||
| Third Quarter | 73.29 | 66.51 | 0.21 | ||||||||
| Fourth Quarter | 83.85 | 65.40 | 0.21 | ||||||||
| Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2015 | |||||||||||
| First Quarter | $ | 90.18 | $ | 73.08 | $ | — | |||||
| Second Quarter | 94.80 | 81.90 | — | ||||||||
| Third Quarter | 85.56 | 62.79 | 0.21 | ||||||||
| Fourth Quarter | 78.81 | 62.73 | 0.21 |
Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return since December 12, 2013 with the S&P 500 Index ("S&P 500") and the S&P Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines Index ("S&P Hotel"). The graph assumes that the value of the investment in our common stock and each index was $100 on December 12, 2013 and that all dividends and other distributions were reinvested.

| 12/12/2013 | 12/31/2013 | 12/31/2014 | 12/31/2015 | 12/31/2016 | |||||||||||||||
| Hilton | $ | 100.00 | $ | 103.49 | $ | 121.35 | $ | 99.53 | $ | 128.87 | |||||||||
| S&P 500 | 100.00 | 104.10 | 115.96 | 115.12 | 126.10 | ||||||||||||||
| S&P Hotel | 100.00 | 109.17 | 132.84 | 135.47 | 142.45 |
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
None.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None.
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