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
The Company's common stock is quoted on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbol “JKHY”.
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. 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.
On July 20, 2021, there were approximately 232,300 holders of the Company’s common stock, including individual participants in security position listings.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following shares of the Company were repurchased during the quarter ended June 30, 2021:
| Total Number of Shares Purchased (1) | Average Price of Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans (1) | Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| April 1- April 30, 2021 | — | $ | — | — | 497,713 | ||||||||||||||||||
| May 1- May 31, 2021 | 300,000 | $ | 157.17 | 300,000 | 5,197,713 | ||||||||||||||||||
| June 1- June 30, 2021 | — | $ | — | — | 5,197,713 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 300,000 | $ | 157.17 | 300,000 | 5,197,713 |
(1)300,000 shares were purchased through a publicly announced repurchase plan. There were no shares surrendered to the Company to satisfy tax withholding obligations in connection with employee restricted stock awards.
(2) Total stock repurchase authorizations approved by the Company's Board of Directors as of May 17, 2021 were for 35.0 million shares, which includes an authorization on that date of an additional 5.0 million shares. These authorizations have no specific dollar or share price targets and no expiration dates.
Performance Graph
The following chart presents a comparison for the five-year period ended June 30, 2021, of the market performance of the Company’s common stock with the Standard & Poor's 500 ("S&P 500") Index and an index of peer companies selected by the Company. Historic stock price performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN
Among Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., the S&P 500 Index, and a Peer Group

The following information depicts a line graph with the following values:
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||
| JKHY | 100.00 | 120.54 | 153.10 | 159.01 | 220.83 | 198.45 | ||||||||||||||
| Peer Group | 100.00 | 117.44 | 159.43 | 196.84 | 213.37 | 270.60 | ||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 | 100.00 | 117.90 | 134.84 | 148.89 | 160.06 | 225.36 |
This comparison assumes $100 was invested on June 30, 2016 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.
Companies in the 2021 fiscal peer group are ACI Worldwide Inc.; Black Knight, Inc.; Bottomline Technologies (de) Inc.; Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.; Euronet Worldwide Inc.; ExlService Holdings Inc.; Fair Isaac Corp.; Fidelity National Information Services Inc.; Fiserv Inc.; Fleetcor Technologies Inc.; Global Payments Inc.; Square Inc.; SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc.; Tyler Technologies Inc.; Verint Systems Inc.; and WEX Inc. Cardtronics, plc and CoreLogic, Inc. were originally part of the fiscal 2021 peer group, but both were acquired in fiscal 2021. As a result, both companies were removed from the 2021 peer group and stock performance graph.
The stock performance graph shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
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