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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
The principal market for the Company’s Common Stock is the New York Stock Exchange, but the Common Stock is also listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange. As of February 17, 2011, Common Stock was held by approximately 7,000 shareholders and there were 82,441,446 shares of Common Stock outstanding, net of treasury shares.
The high and low sales prices of the Common Stock per share and the dividends paid per share during the last two years is as follows:
| 2010 | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| **Dividends ** | **Dividends ** | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| High | Low | Per Share | High | Low | Per Share | |||||||||||||||||||
| First Quarter | $ | 33.66 | $ | 28.09 | $ | 0.12 | $ | 26.24 | $ | 16.67 | $ | 0.12 | ||||||||||||
| Second Quarter | 35.54 | 28.49 | 0.15 | 26.18 | 19.67 | 0.12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Third Quarter | 36.24 | 27.54 | 0.15 | 29.71 | 22.16 | 0.12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fourth Quarter | 40.29 | 35.08 | 0.15 | 32.85 | 26.08 | 0.12 |
Our payment of dividends in the future will be determined by our Board of Directors and will depend on business conditions, our earnings and other factors.
For information pertaining to securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans and the related weighted average exercise price, see Part III, Item 12, “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Shareholder Matters.”
The following table provides information about the Company purchases of Common Stock during the quarter ended December 31, 2010:
| **Total Number of ** | **Maximum Dollar ** | |||||||||||||||
| **Shares Purchased as ** | **Value that May Yet ** | |||||||||||||||
| **Part of Publicly ** | **be Purchased Under ** | |||||||||||||||
| **Total Number of ** | **Average Price ** | **Announced Plans ** | **the Plans ** | |||||||||||||
| Period | Shares Purchased | Paid per Share | or Programs(1) | or Programs(1) | ||||||||||||
| October 1, 2010 to October 31, 2010 | — | — | — | $ | 75,000,020 | |||||||||||
| November 1, 2010 to November 30, 2010 | — | — | — | $ | 75,000,020 | |||||||||||
| December 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 | — | — | — | $ | 75,000,020 | |||||||||||
| Total | — | — | — | $ | 75,000,020 | |||||||||||
| (1) | On April 21, 2008, the Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $125.0 million of outstanding common shares either in the open market or through private transactions. |
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Performance Graph. The following table compares total shareholder returns over the last five years to the Standard & Poor’s (the “S&P”) 500 Index, the S&P 600 Small Cap Industrial Machinery Index and the Russell 2000 Index assuming the value of the investment in our Common Stock and each index was $100 on December 31, 2005. Total return values for our Common Stock, the S&P 500 Index, S&P 600 Small Cap Industrial Machinery Index and the Russell 2000 Index were calculated on cumulative total return values assuming reinvestment of dividends. The shareholder return shown on the graph below is not necessarily indicative of future performance.
| 12/05 | 12/06 | 12/07 | 12/08 | 12/09 | 12/10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IDEX Corporation | $ | 100.00 | $ | 115.33 | $ | 131.86 | $ | 88.14 | $ | 113.69 | $ | 142.77 | ||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Index | 100.00 | 113.62 | 117.63 | 72.36 | 89.33 | 100.75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P Industrial Machinery Index | 100.00 | 119.40 | 132.46 | 87.79 | 102.71 | 136.65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russell 2000 Index | 100.00 | 117.00 | 113.79 | 74.19 | 92.90 | 116.40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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