UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
−Removed: Issuer purchases of its common shares during the second quarter of 2021 were as follows:
+Added: Issuer purchases of its common shares during the third quarter of 2021 were as follows:
Total Number of
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Programs (2) (3)
−Removed: April 1 - 30, 2021
−Removed: May 1 - 31, 2021
−Removed: June 1 - 30, 2021
+Added: July 1 - 31, 2021
+Added: August 1 - 31, 2021
+Added: September 1 - 30, 2021
(1) The above share repurchases include the surrender of the Company’s common shares in connection with the vesting of restricted awards.
(2) On April 20, 2016, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new share repurchase program, which increased the total number of the Company’s common shares authorized to be repurchased to 55 million shares.
−Removed: Total shares purchased through the share repurchase programs were 54.0 million shares at a total cost of $2.3 billion for a weighted average cost of $43.14 per share through June 30, 2021 .
+Added: Total shares purchased through the share repurchase programs were 54 million shares at a total cost of $2.4 billion for a weighted average cost of $43.77 per share through September 30, 2021 .
(3) On February 12, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a new share repurchase program for up to an additional 10 million shares of the Company’s common stock.
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Not applicable.
−Removed: Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 23, 2021, by and among Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., The Lincoln Electric Company, Lincoln Electric International Holding Company, J.W.
−Removed: Harris Co., Inc., Lincoln Electric Automation, Inc., Lincoln Global, Inc., the Lenders and KeyBank National Association (filed as exhibit 10.4 to Form 10-Q of the Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: filed on April 27, 2021, SEC File No.
−Removed: 0-1402, and incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof).
Certification of the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
−Removed: July 27, 2021
+Added: October 28, 2021
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.