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 20, 2024, there were approximately 107,000 holders
of record of our common stock and the last
reported sales price was $75.64.
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 $4.9 billion, authorized by our Board, to the repurchase
program provide for a total of $5.0 billion
(including $400 million authorized on February 8, 2023) of shares
of our common stock to be repurchased under
this program.
As of December 30, 2023,
we had repurchased approximately $4.7 billion of common stock (90,394,805
shares)
under these initiatives, with $265 million available for future common stock
share repurchases.
The following table summarizes repurchases of our common stock
under our stock repurchase program during the
fiscal quarter ended December 30, 2023:
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)
10/1/2023 through 11/4/2023
-
-
-
5,048,074
11/5/2023 through 12/2/2023
-
-
-
4,529,764
12/3/2023 through 12/30/2023
692,441
$
72.32
692,441
3,499,205
692,441
692,441
(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 2023 or 2022.
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 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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2018
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2019
December
2020
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2021
December
2022
December
2023
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 29, 2018, the last trading day before the
beginning of our 2019 fiscal year, through the
end of our 2023 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 29, 2018
ASSUMES DIVIDENDS REINVESTED
December 29,
December 28,
December 26,
December 25,
December 31,
December 30,
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Henry Schein, Inc.
$
100.00
$
110.31
$
109.05
$
124.11
$
132.28
$
125.37
Dow Jones U.S. Health
Care Index
100.00
123.48
140.83
175.06
168.44
171.61
NASDAQ Stock Market
Composite Index
100.00
138.27
198.34
244.03
164.56
238.01
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