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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information
Our common stock, $1 par value, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol “ROK”. On October 31, 2021, there were 13,207 shareowners of record of our common stock.
Company Purchases
The table below sets forth information with respect to purchases made by or on behalf of us of shares of our common stock during the three months ended September 30, 2021:
| Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased**(1)** | Average Price Paid Per Share**(2)** | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | Maximum Approx. Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs**(3)** | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 1 – 31, 2021 | 76,727 | $ | 293.14 | 76,727 | $ | 591,003,972 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| August 1 – 31, 2021 | 62,574 | 316.31 | 62,574 | 571,211,496 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 1 – 30, 2021 | 60,788 | 310.74 | 60,788 | 552,321,985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 200,089 | 305.73 | 200,089 |
(1)All of the shares purchased during the quarter ended September 30, 2021, were acquired pursuant to the repurchase program described in (3) below.
(2)Average price paid per share includes brokerage commissions.
(3)On July 24, 2019, the Board of Directors authorized us to expend an additional $1.0 billion to repurchase shares of our common stock. Our repurchase program allows us to repurchase shares at management’s discretion or at our broker’s discretion pursuant to a share repurchase plan subject to price and volume parameters.
Performance Graph
The following information is not deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C under the Exchange Act or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, and will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except to the extent the Company specifically incorporates it by reference into such a filing.
The following line graph compares the cumulative total shareowner return on our common stock against the cumulative total return of the S&P Composite-500 Stock Index (S&P 500 Index) and the S&P Electrical Components & Equipment Index for the period of five fiscal years from October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2021, assuming in each case a fixed investment of $100 at the respective closing prices on September 30, 2016, and reinvestment of all dividends.
The cumulative total returns on Rockwell Automation common stock and each index as of September 30, 2016 through 2021 plotted in the above graph are as follows:
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rockwell Automation* | $ | 100.00 | $ | 148.54 | $ | 159.26 | $ | 143.26 | $ | 195.79 | $ | 264.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Index | 100.00 | 118.61 | 139.85 | 145.80 | 167.89 | 218.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P Electrical Components & Equipment | 100.00 | 120.13 | 139.16 | 134.49 | 156.25 | 226.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends per common share | 2.90 | 3.04 | 3.51 | 3.88 | 4.08 | 4.28 |
** Includes the reinvestment of all dividends in our common stock.*
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