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.
Stock Trading Symbol – PEP
Stock Exchange Listings – The Nasdaq Global Select Market is the principal market for our common stock, which is also listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Shareholders – As of February 6, 2020, there were approximately 109,312 shareholders of record of our common stock.
Dividends – We have paid consecutive quarterly cash dividends since 1965. The declaration and payment of future dividends are at the discretion of the Board of Directors. Dividends are usually declared in February, May, July and November and paid at the end of March, June and September and the beginning of January. On February 10, 2020, the Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.955 payable March 31, 2020, to shareholders of record on March 6, 2020. For the remainder of 2020, the record dates for these dividend payments are expected to be June 5, September 4 and December 4, 2020, subject to approval of the Board of Directors. On February 13, 2020, we announced a 7% increase in our annualized dividend to $4.09 per share from $3.82 per share, effective with the dividend expected to be paid in June 2020. We expect to return a total of approximately $7.5 billion to shareholders in 2020 through share repurchases of approximately $2 billion and dividends of approximately $5.5 billion.
For information on securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans, see “Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.”
A summary of our common stock repurchases (in millions, except average price per share) during the fourth quarter of 2019 is set forth in the table below.
Issuer Purchases of Common Stock
| Period | Total Number of Shares Repurchased**(a)** | Average Price Paid Per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value) of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs | |||||||||
| 9/7/2019 | $ | 11,783 | |||||||||||
| 9/8/2019 - 10/5/2019 | 1.5 | $ | 135.74 | 1.5 | (204 | ) | |||||||
| 11,579 | |||||||||||||
| 10/6/2019 - 11/2/2019 | 1.3 | $ | 136.76 | 1.3 | (170 | ) | |||||||
| 11,409 | |||||||||||||
| 11/3/2019 - 11/30/2019 | 1.5 | $ | 133.90 | 1.5 | (202 | ) | |||||||
| 11,207 | |||||||||||||
| 12/1/2019 - 12/28/2019 | 0.9 | $ | 136.52 | 0.9 | (123 | ) | |||||||
| Total | 5.2 | $ | 135.58 | 5.2 | $ | 11,084 |
| (a) | All shares were repurchased in open market transactions pursuant to the $15 billion repurchase program authorized by our Board of Directors and publicly announced on February 13, 2018, which commenced on July 1, 2018 and will expire on June 30, 2021. Shares repurchased under this program may be repurchased in open market transactions, in privately negotiated transactions, in accelerated stock repurchase transactions or otherwise. |
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