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As of December 31, 2022, we had remaining authorization to repurchase up to approximately $1.36 billion of our common stock under the Repurchase Program.
−Removed: The February 10, 2022 $2.0 billion increase in the stock repurchase authorization, increased the remaining authorization to repurchase common stock under the Repurchase Program up to approximately $2.5 billion.
−Removed: Since the Merger between Quintiles and IMS health, we have repurchased 67.4 million shares of our common stock at an average market price per share of $100.95 for an aggregate purchase price of $6.8 billion both under and outside of the Repurchase Program.
+Added: Since the Merger between Quintiles and IMS health in October 2016, we have repurchased 73.1 million shares of our common stock at an average market price per share of $109.38 for an aggregate purchase price of $8.00 billion both under and outside of the Repurchase Program.
This includes shares withheld from employees to satisfy certain tax obligations due in connection with grants of stock under the Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc.
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The following graph shows a comparison from December 31, 2017 through December 31, 2022 of the cumulative total return for our common stock, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (“S&P 500”), our new peer group set forth below ("New Peer Group"), and our old peer group set forth below ("Old Peer Group").
−Removed: The New Peer Group consists of Cerner Corporation, Charles River Laboratories, Inc., Equifax Inc., ICON plc, IHS Markit Ltd., Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Nielsen N.V., Syneos Health (formerly INC Research Holdings), Thomson Reuters Corporation and Verisk Analytics, Inc.
−Removed: The difference between the New Peer Group and the Old Peer Group is that PRA Health Sciences, Inc.
−Removed: has been removed from the New Peer Group as it became part of ICON plc during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: The companies in our peer group are publicly traded information services, information technology or clinical research companies, and thus share similar business model characteristics to IQVIA, or provide services to similar customers as IQVIA.
+Added: The New Peer Group consists of Charles River Laboratories, Inc., Equifax Inc., ICON plc, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Syneos Health (formerly INC Research Holdings), Thomson Reuters Corporation and Verisk Analytics, Inc.
+Added: The difference between the New Peer Group and the Old Peer Group is that Nielsen N.V., Cerner Corporation and IHS Markit Ltd.
+Added: have been removed from the New Peer Group as these companies were acquired by a private equity consortium, Oracle Corporation and S&P Global Inc., respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The companies in our peer groups are publicly traded information services, information technology or clinical research companies, and thus share similar business model characteristics to IQVIA, or provide services to similar customers as IQVIA.
Many of these companies are also used by our compensation committee for purposes of compensation benchmarking.
−Removed: The graph assumes that $100 was invested in IQVIA, the S&P 500, the New Peer Group and the Old Peer Group as of the close of market on December 31, 2016, assumes the reinvestments of dividends, if any.
+Added: The graph assumes that $100 was invested in IQVIA, the S&P 500, the New Peer Group, and the Old Peer Group as of the close of market on December 31, 2017, and assumes the reinvestments of dividends, if any.
The S&P 500 and our New and Old Peer Groups are included for comparative purposes only.
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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.