Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Price for Common Stock

Our common stock is listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LII.” The high and low sales prices for our common stock for each quarterly period during 2017 and 2016 were as follows:

Dividends

During 2017 and 2016, we declared quarterly cash dividends as set forth below:

The amount and timing of dividend payments are determined by our Board of Directors and subject to certain restrictions under our domestic revolving credit facility.

Holders of Common Stock

As of the close of business on February 9, 2018, approximately 650 holders of record held our common stock.

Comparison of Total Stockholder Return

The following graph compares the cumulative total returns of LII's common stock with the cumulative total returns of the Standards & Poor's Midcap 400 Index, a broad index of mid-size U.S. companies of which the Company is a part, and with a peer group of U.S. industrial manufacturing and service companies in the HVACR businesses. The graph assumes that $100 was invested on December 31, 2012, with dividends reinvested. Our peer group includes AAON, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand plc, Comfort Systems USA, Inc., United Technologies Corporation, Johnson Controls Inc., and Watsco, Inc. Peer group returns are weighted by market capitalization.

This performance graph and other information furnished under this Comparison of Total Stockholder Return section shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the Securities and Exchange Commission or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C, or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act.

Our Purchases of LII Equity Securities

Our Board of Directors has authorized a total of $2 billion towards the repurchase of shares of our common stock (collectively referred to as the "Share Repurchase Plans"), including a $550 million share repurchase authorization in 2016. The Share Repurchase Plans authorize open market repurchase transactions and do not have a stated expiration date. As of December 31, 2017, $396 million of shares may yet be repurchased under the Share Repurchase Plans.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, we purchased shares of our common stock as follows:

(1) Includes the surrender to LII of 49,508 shares of common stock to satisfy employee tax-withholding obligations in connection with the exercise of vested stock appreciation rights and the vesting of restricted stock units.

(2) Includes final settlement of shares repurchased in Accelerated Share Repurchase Plan (ASR) executed in the third quarter of 2017.

(3) After a $75 million payment for Accelerated Share Repurchase Plan (ASR) executed in February 2017, $100 million payment for an ASR executed in April 2017 and $75 million payment for an ASR executed in July 2017. Final settlement of the February ASR occurred in the second quarter, final settlement for the April ASR occurred in the third quarter and the final settlement of the July ASR occurred in the fourth quarter. The February, April and July ASRs were effected pursuant to a previously announced repurchase plan.