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.

The common stock of the Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is traded on the Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston Exchanges under the symbol ROL.

As of January 31, 2022, there were 7,747 holders of record of the Company’s common stock. However, a large number of our shareholders hold their shares in “street name” in brokerage accounts and, therefore, do not appear on the shareholder list maintained by our transfer agent.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company did not repurchase shares on the open market. In total, there remains 11.4 million additional shares authorized to be repurchased under prior Board approval. The repurchase program does not have an expiration date.


				Total number of
		Weighted-		shares purchased as	Maximum number of
	Total number of	average		part of publicly	shares that may yet be
	shares	price paid		announced	purchased under the
Period	purchased (1)	per share		repurchases (2)	repurchase plan (2)
October 1 to 31, 2021	—	$	—	—	11,415,625
November 1 to 30, 2021	2,429		39.34	—	11,415,625
December 1 to 31, 2021	—		—	—	11,415,625
Total	2,429	$	39.34	—	11,415,625

(1)	Includes repurchases from employees for the payment of taxes on vesting of restricted shares.

(2)	In 2012, the Company’s Board authorized a share repurchase plan to repurchase up to 5.0 million shares of the Company’s common stock. The split-adjusted authorized shares under the share repurchase plan are 16.9 million shares.

PERFORMANCE GRAPH

The following graph sets forth a five-year comparison of the cumulative total stockholder return based on the performance of the stock of the Company as compared with both a broad equity market index and an industry index. The indices included in the following graph are the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Commercial Services Index.

COMPARISON OF FIVE YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*


	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Rollins Inc.	100.00	137.74	160.30	147.25	260.24	227.86
S&P500	100.00	119.42	111.97	144.31	167.77	212.89
S&P 500 Commercial Services & Supplies	100.00	118.67	117.37	162.24	193.66	252.11

ASSUMES INITIAL INVESTMENT OF $100

*TOTAL RETURN ASSUMES REINVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS

NOTE: TOTAL RETURNS BASED ON MARKET CAPITALIZATION

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