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Item 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
The dividend and market price data included in Item 7, MD&A "Unaudited Quarterly Data," are incorporated in this Item 5 by reference.
Quarterly dividends have been paid continually since 1935. Dividends have been paid on or about the second business day of January, April, July and October.
Kimberly-Clark common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The ticker symbol is KMB.
As of February 1, 2018, we had 20,540 holders of record of our common stock.
For information relating to securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans, see Part III, Item 12 of this Form 10-K.
We repurchase shares of Kimberly-Clark common stock from time to time pursuant to publicly announced share repurchase programs. During 2017, we repurchased 7.2 million shares of our common stock at a cost of $900 through a broker in the open market.
The following table contains information for shares repurchased during the fourth quarter of 2017. None of the shares in this table were repurchased directly from any of our officers or directors.
| Period (2017) | Total Number of Shares Purchased(a) | Average Price Paid Per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | Maximum Number of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs | |||||||||
| October 1 to October 31 | 350,000 | $ | 115.44 | 16,375,346 | 23,624,654 | ||||||||
| November 1 to November 30 | 340,400 | 114.59 | 16,715,746 | 23,284,254 | |||||||||
| December 1 to December 31 | 172,100 | 119.49 | 16,887,846 | 23,112,154 | |||||||||
| Total | 862,500 |
| (a) | Share repurchases were made pursuant to a share repurchase program authorized by our Board of Directors on November 13, 2014. This program allows for the repurchase of 40 million shares in an amount not to exceed $5 billion. |
| 9 | KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION - 2017 Annual Report |
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