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Payment of dividends is within the discretion of the Board of Directors and depends on, among other factors, earnings, capital requirements, and the operating and financial condition of the Company.
−Removed: Range of Bid Prices
−Removed: Cash Dividends
−Removed: Year Ending September 30, 2019
+Added: Range of Bid Prices Cash Dividends
+Added: Year Ending September 30, 2020 High Low Declared
First Quarter $ 30.00 $ 27.53 $ 0.1750
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Fourth Quarter 31.00 26.46 0.1650
−Removed: As of November 22, 2019 , there were 1,106 holders of record of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: As of November 25, 2020, there w ere 1,058 holders of reco rd of the Company’s common stock.
This number does not include all beneficial owners of common stock who hold their shares in “street name."
−Removed: Comparisons of Cumulative Total Shareholder Returns
−Removed: The following performance graph compares the Company’s total shareholder return from September 30, 2014 through September 30, 2019 with the Dow Jones US Utility Index, a utility based index, and the S&P 500 Index, a broad market index.
−Removed: The graph below reflects the value of a hypothetical investment of $100 made September 30, 2014 in the Company’s common stock and in each index as of September 30, 2019 , assuming the reinvestment of all dividends.
−Removed: Historical stock price performance as reflected on the graph is not indicative of future price performance.
−Removed: The total value at the end of the five years was $250 for the Company’s common stock, $185 for the Dow Jones US Utilities Index and $167 for the S&P 500 Index.
A summary of the Company’s equity compensation plans follows as of September 30, 2020:
−Removed: Plan category
−Removed: Number of securities
+Added: Plan category Number of securities
to be issued upon
outstanding options,
−Removed: warrants and rights
−Removed: Weighted-average
+Added: warrants and rights Weighted-average
exercise price of
options, warrants
−Removed: Number of securities
+Added: and rights Number of securities
remaining available
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Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders — — —
+Added: Total 51,500 $18.34 493,532
Selected Financial Data .
−Removed: Year Ending September 30,
−Removed: Operating Revenues
−Removed: Operating Income (1)
−Removed: Basic Earnings Per Share
−Removed: Cash Dividends Declared Per Share
−Removed: Book Value Per Share
−Removed: Average Shares Outstanding
−Removed: Long-Term Debt (Less Unamortized Debt Expense)
−Removed: Stockholders' Equity
−Removed: Shares Outstanding at Sept.
−Removed: (1) Operating income for the prior years were revised due to the adoption of ASU 2017-07 - Compensation Retirement Benefits .
−Removed: Net income remained unaffected.
−Removed: See Note 1 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.
+Added: Not applicable.
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.