Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of
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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of
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 tier of
the Nasdaq Stock Market, or Nasdaq,
under the symbol HSIC.
On February 7, 2023, there were approximately 88,000 holders of record of
our common stock and the last reported
sales price was $87.14.
A substantially greater number of holders of our common
stock are “street name” or
beneficial holders, whose shares are held by banks, brokers and other financial
institutions.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer
Our share repurchase program, announced on March 3, 2003, originally
allowed us to repurchase up to two million
shares pre-stock splits (eight million shares post-stock splits) of our common
stock, which represented
approximately 2.3% of the shares outstanding at the commencement
of the program.
Subsequent additional
increases totaling $4.5 billion, authorized by our Board of Directors,
to the repurchase program provide for a total
of $4.6 billion (including $400 million authorized on August 17, 2022) of shares
of our common stock to be
repurchased under this program.
As of December 31, 2022,
we had repurchased approximately $4.5 billion of common stock (87,180,669
shares)
under these initiatives, with $115 million available for future common stock share repurchases.
On February 8, 2023, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase
of up to an additional $400 million in shares
of our common stock.
The following table summarizes repurchases of our common stock
under our stock repurchase program during the
fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2022:
Total Number
Maximum Number
Total
of Shares
of Shares
Number
Average
Purchased as Part
that May Yet
of Shares
Price Paid
of Our Publicly
Be Purchased Under
Fiscal Month
Purchased (1)
Per Share
Announced Program
Our Program (2)
9/25/2022 through 10/29/2022
-
-
-
5,703,693
10/30/2022 through 11/26/2022
1,249,083
$
76.29
1,249,083
3,741,485
11/27/2022 through 12/31/2022
2,333,467
81.30
2,333,467
1,439,841
3,582,550
3,582,550
(1)
All repurchases were executed in the open market under our existing publicly announced authorized program.
(2)
The maximum number of shares that may yet be purchased under this program is determined at the end of each month based on the
closing price of our common stock at that time.
This table excludes shares withheld from employees to satisfy minimum tax
withholding requirements for equity-based transactions.
Dividend Policy
We have not declared any cash or stock dividends on our common stock during fiscal years 2022 or 2021.
We
currently do not anticipate declaring any cash or stock dividends on our common
stock in the foreseeable future.
We intend to retain earnings to finance the expansion of our business and for general corporate purposes, including
our share repurchase program.
Any declaration of dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of
Directors and
will depend upon the earnings, financial condition, capital requirements,
level of indebtedness, contractual
restrictions with respect to payment of dividends and other factors.




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December
2017
December
2018
December
2019
December
2020
December
2021
December
2022
Henry Schein, Inc.
Dow Jones US Health Care Index
NASDAQ Composite Index
Stock Performance Graph
The graph below compares the cumulative total stockholder return
on $100 invested, assuming the reinvestment of
all dividends, on December 30, 2017, the last trading day before the
beginning of our 2018 fiscal year, through the
end of our 2022 fiscal year with the cumulative total return on $100
invested for the same period in the Dow Jones
U.S. Health Care Index and the Nasdaq Stock Market Composite Index.
COMPARISON OF 5-YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL
RETURN
ASSUMES $100 INVESTED ON DECEMBER 30, 2017
ASSUMES DIVIDENDS REINVESTED
December 30,
December 29,
December 28,
December 26,
December 25,
December 31,
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Henry Schein, Inc.
$
100.00
$
111.49
$
122.98
$
121.58
$
138.37
$
147.48
Dow Jones U.S. Health
Care Index
100.00
104.72
129.31
147.48
183.33
176.40
NASDAQ Stock Market
Composite Index
100.00
96.41
133.30
191.21
235.27
158.65
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