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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
Our Common Stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “MDLZ.” At January 31, 2015, there were 62,195 holders of record of our Common Stock. Information regarding the market price of our Common Stock and dividends declared during the last two fiscal years is included in Note 18, Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited), to the consolidated financial statements.
Comparison of Five-Year Cumulative Total Return
The following graph compares the cumulative total return on our Common Stock with the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Index and the Mondelēz International performance peer group index. The graph assumes, in each case, that an initial investment of $100 is made at the beginning of the five-year period. The cumulative total return reflects market prices at the end of each year and the reinvestment of dividends each year (and takes into account the value of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. shares distributed in the Spin-Off). The vertical line below indicates the October 1, 2012 Spin-Off date and is intended to facilitate comparisons of performance against peers listed below and the stock market before and following the Spin-Off.
| Mondelēz | Performance | |||||||||||
| Date | International | S&P 500 | Peer Group | |||||||||
| December 31, 2009 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 100.00 | ||||||
| December 31, 2010 | 120.39 | 115.06 | 112.26 | |||||||||
| December 31, 2011 | 147.64 | 117.49 | 120.95 | |||||||||
| December 31, 2012 | 158.73 | 136.30 | 132.99 | |||||||||
| December 31, 2013 | 223.95 | 180.14 | 158.54 | |||||||||
| December 31, 2014 | 234.22 | 205.14 | 171.35 |
The Mondelēz International performance peer group consists of the following companies considered our market competitors or that have been selected on the basis of industry, global focus or industry leadership: Campbell Soup Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Danone S.A., General Mills, Inc., The Hershey Company, Kellogg Company, Nestlé S.A., PepsiCo, Inc., The Procter & Gamble Company and Unilever N.V.
This performance graph and other information furnished under this Part II Item 5(a) of this Form 10-K shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C, or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act.
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Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our stock repurchase activity for each of the three months in the quarter ended December 31, 2014 included:
| Total Number of Shares Purchased (1) | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program (2) | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares That May Yet be Purchased Under the Program (2) | |||||||||||||
| October 1-31, 2014 | 94,645 | $ | 33.95 | – | $ | 3,748,483,943 | ||||||||||
| November 1-30, 2014 | 10,687,311 | 38.51 | 10,627,813 | 3,339,111,657 | ||||||||||||
| December 1-31, 2014 | 7,002,654 | 38.61 | 7,001,127 | 3,068,780,002 | ||||||||||||
| Quarter Ended December 31, 2014 | 17,784,610 | 38.53 | 17,628,940 | |||||||||||||
| (1) | The total number of shares purchased includes: (i) shares purchased pursuant to the repurchase program described in (2) below; and (ii) shares tendered to us by employees who used shares to exercise options and to pay the related taxes for grants of restricted and deferred stock that vested, totaling 94,645 shares, 59,498 shares and 1,527 shares for the fiscal months of October, November and December 2014, respectively. |
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| (2) | During 2013, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of $7.7 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2016. On March 12, 2013, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to the lesser of 40 million shares or $1.2 billion of our Common Stock through March 12, 2016. On August 6, 2013, our Audit Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, increased the repurchase program capacity to $6.0 billion of Common Stock repurchases and extended the expiration date to December 31, 2016. On December 3, 2013, our Board of Directors approved an increase of $1.7 billion to the program related to a new accelerated share repurchase program, which concluded in May 2014. See Note 13, Capital Stock, for additional information. |
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