−Removed: MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
+Added: MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
+Added: AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
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The following graph presents a comparison of Company (CBSH) performance to the indices named below.
−Removed: It assumes $100 invested on December 31, 2015 with dividends invested on a cumulative total shareholder return basis.
+Added: It assumes $100 invested on December 31, 2016 with dividends reinvested on a cumulative total shareholder return basis.
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
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The Company has a long history of paying dividends.
−Removed: 2020 marked the 52nd consecutive year of growth in our regular common dividend, and the Company has also issued an annual 5% common stock dividend for the past 27 years.
+Added: 2021 marked the 53rd consecutive year of growth in our regular common dividend, and the Company has also issued an annual 5% common stock dividend for the past 28 years.
However, payment of future dividends is within the discretion of the Board of Directors and will depend, among other factors, on earnings, capital requirements, and the operating and financial condition of the Company.
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Under the most recent authorization in November 2019 of 5,000,000 shares, 1,737,322 shares remained available for purchase at December 31, 2021.
−Removed: SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
−Removed: The required information is set forth below in Item 7.
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.