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 6, 2025, the last reported price for the Company’s Class A Common Stock was $376.80 per share, and there were 78 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, 2024.
| 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 29, 2024 - October 26, 2024 | — | $ | — | — | $ | 877 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| October 27, 2024 - November 23, 2024 | — | — | — | 877 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 24, 2024 - December 31, 2024 | 80,256 | 387.20 | 80,256 | 846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 80,256 | $ | — | 80,256 | $ | 846 |
(1)On May 17, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program for up to $1 billion of its outstanding shares of common stock. This authorization augments the previous $1 billion share repurchase authorization which was announced on July 30, 2019 and completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. Repurchases may be affected 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. As of December 31, 2024, the Company has cumulatively repurchased 539,574 shares of common stock for approximately $154 million, resulting in a remaining amount of share repurchases authorized under the plans of $846 million. Subsequent to the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company has repurchased 128,466 shares of common stock for approximately $50 million through February 6, 2025.
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, and the S&P 500 Information Technology Index for the five years ended December 31, 2024. The comparison assumes that $100 was invested in each of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, the S&P 500 Index, and the S&P 500 Information Technology Index as of the market close on December 31, 2019. 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, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12/19 | 12/20 | 12/21 | 12/22 | 12/23 | 12/24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zebra Technologies Corporation | $ | 100.00 | $ | 150.46 | $ | 233.01 | $ | 100.38 | $ | 107.00 | $ | 151.20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 118.40 | $ | 152.39 | $ | 124.79 | $ | 157.59 | $ | 197.02 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Information Technology | $ | 100.00 | $ | 143.89 | $ | 193.58 | $ | 139.00 | $ | 219.40 | $ | 299.72 |
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