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.
We are proud members of the Standard and Poor’s 500 and Nasdaq 100. Our Common Stock is listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “MDLZ.” At January 31, 2023, there were 38,218 holders of record of our Common Stock.
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.

| As of December 31, | Mondelēz International | S&P 500 | Performance Peer Group | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 100.00 | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 95.73 | 95.62 | 94.15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | 134.43 | 125.72 | 119.40 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 145.97 | 148.85 | 130.65 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 169.14 | 191.58 | 149.35 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 174.08 | 156.88 | 147.96 |
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, The Kraft Heinz Company, Nestlé S.A., PepsiCo, Inc., The Procter & Gamble Company and Unilever PLC.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our stock repurchase activity for each of the three months in the quarter ended December 31, 2022 was:
| Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased (1) | Average Price Paid per Share (1) | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (2) | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 1-31, 2022 | 1,863,361 | $ | 56.55 | 1,847,134 | $ | 1,707 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| November 1-30, 2022 | 600,970 | 64.87 | 585,763 | 1,669 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 1-31, 2022 | 240,012 | 67.47 | 236,873 | 1,653 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| For the Quarter Ended December 31, 2022 | 2,704,343 | 59.37 | 2,669,770 |
(1)The total number of shares purchased (and the average price paid per share) reflects: (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 deferred stock units that vested, totaling 16,227 shares, 15,207 shares and 3,139 shares for the fiscal months of October, November and December 2022, respectively.
(2)Dollar values stated in millions. Our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase up to $23.7 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2023. Since the program inception on March 12, 2013 through December 31, 2022, we have repurchased $22.0 billion. Our Board of Directors authorized a new program for the repurchase of up to $6.0 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2025. This authorization, effective January 1, 2023, replaces our current share repurchase program. See related information in Note 13, Capital Stock.
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