Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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The Company's common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market ("NASDAQ"), formerly known as the NASDAQ National Market, under the symbol "JKHY". The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low sales price per share of the common stock as reported by NASDAQ.
| Fiscal 2008 | High | Low | ||
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| Fourth Quarter | $27.48 | $21.62 | ||
| Third Quarter | 26.11 | 22.22 | ||
| Second Quarter | 29.24 | 24.34 | ||
| First Quarter | 27.50 | 23.39 | ||
| Fiscal 2007 | High | Low | ||
| Fourth Quarter | $26.75 | $23.54 | ||
| Third Quarter | 24.67 | 20.57 | ||
| Second Quarter | 23.20 | 21.02 | ||
| First Quarter | 22.20 | 17.40 |
The Company established a practice of paying quarterly dividends at the end of fiscal 1990 and has paid dividends with respect to every quarter since that time. Quarterly dividends per share paid on the common stock for the two most recent fiscal years ended June 30, 2008 and 2007 are as follows:
| Fiscal 2008 | Dividend | |||
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| Fourth Quarter | $0.075 | |||
| Third Quarter | 0.075 | |||
| Second Quarter | 0.065 | |||
| First Quarter | 0.065 | |||
| Fiscal 2007 | Dividend | |||
| Fourth Quarter | $0.065 | |||
| Third Quarter | 0.065 | |||
| Second Quarter | 0.055 | |||
| First Quarter | 0.055 |
The declaration and payment of any future dividends will continue to be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon, among other factors, our earnings, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, and operating and financial condition. The Company does not currently foresee any changes in its dividend practices.
Information regarding the Company's equity compensation plans is set forth under the caption "Equity Compensation Plan Information" in the Company's definitive Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
On August 21, 2008, there were approximately 50,000 holders of the Company's common stock. On that same date the last sale price of the common shares as reported on NASDAQ was $20.10 per share.
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Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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The following shares of the Company were repurchased during the quarter ended June 30, 2008:
| ** Period** | ** Total Number of Shares Purchased** | ** Average Price of Share** | ** Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans** | ** Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans (1)** | |||||||||
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| April 1 - April 30, 2008 | 0 | $ - | 0 | 5,089,971 | |||||||||
| May 1 - May 31, 2008 | 1,200,400 | $ 23.31 | 1,200,400 | 3,889,571 | |||||||||
| June 1 - June 30, 2008 | 200,000 | $ 22.70 | 200,000 | 3,689,571 | |||||||||
| Total | 1,400,400 | $ 23.23 | 1,400,400 | 3,689,571 | |||||||||
(1) Purchases made under the stock repurchase authorization approved by the Company's Board of Directors on October 4, 2002 with respect to 3.0 million shares, increased by 2.0 million shares on April 29, 2005, and by 5.0 million shares on August 28, 2006. On February 4, 2008, the Company's Board of Directors approved an additional 5.0 million share increase to the stock repurchase authorization. These authorizations have no specific dollar or share price targets and no expiration dates.
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Performance Graph
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The following chart presents a comparison for the five-year period ended June 30, 2008, of the market performance of the Company's common stock with the S & P 500 Index and an index of peer companies selected by the Company:
The following information depicts a line graph with the following values.
| JKHY | New Peer Group (1) | Old Peer Group (2) | S & P 500 | |||||
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| 2003 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | ||||
| 2004 | 113.87 | 117.19 | 118.07 | 119.11 | ||||
| 2005 | 104.67 | 126.52 | 131.77 | 126.64 | ||||
| 2006 | 113.52 | 140.98 | 145.02 | 137.57 | ||||
| 2007 | 150.27 | 171.76 | 170.62 | 165.90 | ||||
| 2008 | 127.69 | 130.33 | 114.09 | 144.13 |
This comparison assumes $100 was invested on June 30, 2003, and assumes reinvestments of dividends. Total returns are calculated according to market capitalization of peer group members at the beginning of each period. Peer companies selected are in the business of providing specialized computer software, hardware and related services to financial institutions and other businesses. In fiscal year 2008, we changed our peer group of companies used for this analysis to align with peer companies selected by our Compensation Committee for use in determining compensation for executive management. Companies in the new peer group (1) are Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., Bottomline Technology, Inc., Cerner Corp., DST Systems, Inc., Euronet Worldwide, Inc., Fair Isaac Corp., Fidelity National Financial, Inc., Fiserv, Inc., Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc., Metavante Technologies, Inc., Online Resources Corp., S1 Corp., SEI Investments Company, Telecommunications Systems, Inc., and Tyler Technologies Corp.
In previous fiscal years, the old peer group (2) consisted of Cerner Corp., Computer Sciences Corp., Euronet Worldwide Inc., Fair Isaac Corp., Fidelity National Financial, Fiserv Inc., Marshall & Ilsley Corp., National Datacomputer Com, and SEI Investments Company.
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