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Our common stock, with no par value, has traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol “NEU” since June 21, 2004 when we became the parent holding company of Ethyl, Afton, NewMarket Services, NewMarket Development, and their subsidiaries.
−Removed: We had 1,862 shareholders of record at January 31, 2023.
+Added: We had 1,797 shareholders of record as of January 31, 2024.
On October 28, 2021, our Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing management to repurchase up to $500 million of NewMarket's outstanding common stock until December 31, 2024, as market conditions warrant and covenants under our existing debt agreements permit.
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At December 31, 2023 , approximately $231 million remained available under the 2021 authorization.
−Removed: The following table outlines the purchases during the fourth quarter of 2022 under this authorization.
−Removed: Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
−Removed: Period 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
−Removed: October 1 to October 31 72,841 $ 305.95 72,841 $ 304,344,445
−Removed: November 1 to November 30 31,676 312.30 31,676 294,452,135
−Removed: December 1 to December 31 64,761 310.49 64,761 274,344,541
−Removed: Total 169,278 $ 308.87 169,278 $ 274,344,541
+Added: There were no purchases during the fourth quarter of 2023 under this authorization.
Cash dividends declared and paid totaled $8.85 per share for the year ended December 31, 2023 and $8.40 per share for the year ended December 31, 2022.
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Future dividends will depend on various factors, including our financial condition, earnings, cash requirements, legal requirements, restrictions in agreements governing our outstanding indebtedness, and other factors deemed relevant by our Board of Directors.
−Removed: The performance graph showing the five-year cumulative total return on our common stock as compared to chemical companies in the S&P 1500 Specialty Chemicals Index and the S&P 500 is shown below.
+Added: The performance graph of the five-year cumulative total return on our common stock as compared to chemical companies in the S&P 1500 Specialty Chemicals Index and the S&P 500 is shown below.
The graph assumes $100 invested on the last day of December 2018, and 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.