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 Information
Our Class A Common Stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC under the symbol “ZBRA”.
As of February 4, 2021, the last reported price for the Company’s Class A Common Stock was $407.34 per share, and there were 103 registered stockholders of record for Zebra’s Class A Common Stock. The number of beneficial owners is substantially greater than the number of stockholders of record, because a large portion of our Class A common stock is transacted through banks and brokers.
Dividend Policy
Since our initial public offering in 1991, we have not declared any cash dividends or distributions on our capital stock. We currently do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
Treasury Shares
The following table sets forth information with respect to repurchases of the Company’s common stock for the three months ended December 31, 2020.
| Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (1) | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (in millions) (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 27, 2020 - October 24, 2020 | — | $ | — | — | $ | 753 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| October 25, 2020 - November 21, 2020 | — | — | — | 753 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 22, 2020 - December 31, 2020 | — | — | — | 753 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | — | $ | — | — | $ | 753 |
(1)On July 30, 2019, the Company announced that its Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program for up to an aggregate amount of $1 billion of its outstanding shares of common stock. Repurchases may be effected from time to time through open market purchases, including pursuant to a pre-set trading plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company did not make any share repurchases under the program, which does not have a stated expiration date.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return, calculated on a dividend-reinvested basis, in Zebra Technologies Corporation Class A Common Stock, the S&P 500 Index, S&P 500 Information Technology Index, RDG Technology Composite, and the NASDAQ Composite Market Index for the five years ended December 31, 2020. As a result of our joining the S&P 500, we have added the S&P 500 Index and S&P 500 Information Technology Index for 2020 in accordance with Regulation S-K and because we believe these are more relevant indexes. In future years, we will not use the RDG Technology Composite or the NASDAQ Composite Market Index. The comparison assumes that $100 was invested in each of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, the S&P 500 Index, S&P 500 Information Technology Index, RDG Technology Composite and the NASDAQ Composite Market Index as of the market close on December 31, 2015. Note that historic stock price performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

| Value at each year-end of $100 initial investment made on December 31, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12/15 | 12/16 | 12/17 | 12/18 | 12/19 | 12/20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zebra Technologies Corporation | $ | 100.00 | $ | 123.13 | $ | 149.03 | $ | 228.61 | $ | 366.75 | $ | 551.80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NASDAQ Composite | $ | 100.00 | $ | 108.87 | $ | 141.13 | $ | 137.12 | $ | 187.44 | $ | 271.64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 111.96 | $ | 136.40 | $ | 130.42 | $ | 171.49 | $ | 203.04 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RDG Technology Composite | $ | 100.00 | $ | 114.21 | $ | 156.95 | $ | 157.68 | $ | 231.96 | $ | 340.33 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Information Technology | $ | 100.00 | $ | 113.85 | $ | 158.06 | $ | 157.60 | $ | 236.86 | $ | 340.83 |
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