Item 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange

under the symbol SYK.

Our Board of Directors considers payment of cash dividends at

its quarterly meetings. On January 31, 2026 there were 2,323

shareholders of record of our common stock.

We did not repurchase any shares in the three months ended

December 31, 2025 and the total dollar value of shares that could

be acquired under our authorized repurchase program at

December 31, 2025 was $1,033.

In the fourth quarter 2025 we did not issue shares of our common

stock as performance incentive awards to employees. When

issued, these shares are not registered under the Securities Act

of 1933 based on the conclusion that the awards are not events

of sale within the meaning of Section 2(a)(3) of the Act.

The following graph compares our total returns (including

reinvestment of dividends) against the Standard & Poor’s (S&P)

500 Index and the S&P 500 Health Care Index. The graph

assumes $100 (not in millions) invested on December 31, 2020 in

our common stock and each of the indices.