Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The Company’s common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC under the symbol AAPL.
Holders
As of October 15, 2021, there were 23,502 shareholders of record.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
Share repurchase activity during the three months ended September 25, 2021 was as follows (in millions, except number of shares, which are reflected in thousands, and per share amounts):
Periods Total Number
of Shares Purchased Average Price
Paid Per Share Total Number of Shares
Purchased as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or Programs Approximate Dollar Value of
Shares That May Yet Be Purchased
Under the Plans or Programs (1)
June 27, 2021 to July 31, 2021:
Open market and privately negotiated purchases 59,216 $ 143.54 59,216
August 1, 2021 to August 28, 2021:
May 2021 ASR 4,921 (2)
4,921
Open market and privately negotiated purchases 42,343 $ 147.61 42,343
August 29, 2021 to September 25, 2021:
Open market and privately negotiated purchases 35,041 $ 149.81 35,041
Total 141,521 $ 60,851
(1) As of September 25, 2021, the Company was authorized to purchase up to $315 billion of the Company’s common stock under a share repurchase program announced on April 28, 2021 (the “Program”), of which $254.1 billion had been utilized. The remaining $60.9 billion in the table represents the amount available to repurchase shares under the Program as of September 25, 2021. The Program does not obligate the Company to acquire any specific number of shares. Under the Program, shares may be repurchased in privately negotiated and/or open market transactions, including under plans complying with Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act.
(2) In May 2021, the Company entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (“ASR”) to purchase up to $5.0 billion of the Company’s common stock. In August 2021, the purchase period for this ASR ended and an additional 5 million shares were delivered and retired. In total, 36 million shares were delivered under this ASR at an average repurchase price of $137.20.
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Company Stock Performance
The following graph shows a comparison of cumulative total shareholder return, calculated on a dividend-reinvested basis, for the Company, the S&P 500 Index, the S&P Information Technology Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Technology Supersector Index for the five years ended September 25, 2021. The graph assumes $100 was invested in each of the Company’s common stock, the S&P 500 Index, the S&P Information Technology Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Technology Supersector Index as of the market close on September 23, 2016. Note that past stock price performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
* $100 invested on September 23, 2016 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends. Data points are the last day of each fiscal year for the Company’s common stock and September 30th for indexes.
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September 2016 September 2017 September 2018 September 2019 September 2020 September 2021
Apple Inc.
$ 100 $ 139 $ 207 $ 204 $ 422 $ 556
S&P 500 Index
$ 100 $ 119 $ 140 $ 146 $ 168 $ 218
S&P Information Technology Index
$ 100 $ 129 $ 169 $ 184 $ 271 $ 349
Dow Jones U.S. Technology Supersector Index
$ 100 $ 128 $ 168 $ 178 $ 265 $ 362
Item 6. [Reserved]
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