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Cash dividends have been paid each quarter since 1974.
−Removed: The chart below shows quarterly and annual cumulative cash dividends per share for the past three fiscal years.
+Added: The chart below shows quarterly and annual cumulative cash dividends per share for the past two fiscal years.
Fiscal Year First Second Third Fourth Total
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2024 0.2400 0.2400 0.2400 0.2500 0.9700
−Removed: 2022 0.2000 0.2000 0.2000 0.2200 0.8200
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Company
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Period Total Number of Shares Purchased (a) Average Price Paid per Share Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (b) Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased under the Plans or Programs (b)
−Removed: November 26, 2023 through December 30, 2023 — $ — — 2,973,483
+Added: December 1, 2024 through December 28, 2024 260 $ 71.73 — 2,731,910
December 29, 2024 through January 25, 2025 545,181 55.04 545,117 2,186,793
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Total 548,337 $ 58.70 545,117 2,186,793
−Removed: (a) The shares in this column represent the total number of shares that were surrendered to us by plan participants to satisfy withholding tax obligations related to share-based compensation.
−Removed: We did not purchase any shares pursuant to our publicly announce repurchase program during the fiscal quarter.
+Added: (a) The shares in this column represent the total number of shares that were surrendered by plan participants to satisfy withholding tax obligations related to share-based compensation and the total number of shares that were repurchased pursuant to our publicly announced repurchase program.
(b) In fiscal 2004, announced on April 10, 2003, the Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of 1,500,000 shares of Company stock.
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We believe that the S&P 600 Industrials Index is the best available published industry index, composed of companies with similar market capitalization and a mix of GICS classifications that reasonably reflect our diverse business activities, although most of our direct competitors in our various business units are either privately owned or are divisions of larger, publicly owned companies.
−Removed: The graph assumes an investment at the close of trading on March 2, 2019, and also assumes the reinvestment of all dividends.
+Added: The graph assumes an investment at the close of trading on February 29, 2020, and also assumes the reinvestment of all dividends.
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.