Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market information
Our common stock has traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “ULTA” since October 25, 2007.
Holders of the registrant’s common stock
The last reported sale price of our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on March 25, 2025 was $370.75 per share. As of March 25, 2025, we had 25 holders of record of our common stock. Because many shares of
30
Table of Contents
common stock are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders represented by these record holders.
Purchases of equity securities by the issuer and affiliated purchasers
The following table sets forth repurchases of our common stock during the fourth quarter of 2024:
Period
Total number
of shares
purchased (1)
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 plans or programs
(in thousands) (2)
November 3, 2024 to November 30, 2024
197,479
$
369.12
197,479
$
2,873,113
December 1, 2024 to December 28, 2024
171,319
424.90
171,256
2,801,012
December 29, 2024 to February 1, 2025
251,725
422.97
251,318
2,695,737
13 weeks ended February 1, 2025
620,523
406.37
620,053
2,695,737
(1) There were 620,053 shares repurchased as part of our publicly announced share repurchase program during the 13 weeks ended February 1, 2025 and there were 470 shares transferred from employees in satisfaction of minimum statutory tax withholding obligations upon the vesting of restricted stock during the period.
(2) We may repurchase up to $3.0 billion of the Company’s common stock under the share repurchase program the Board of Directors authorized in October 2024, which revoked the previously authorized but unused amounts under the share repurchase program the Board of Directors authorized in March 2024. As of February 1, 2025, $2.7 billion remained available under the October 2024 Share Repurchase Program.
Recent sales of unregistered securities
None.
Securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans
The following table provides information about Ulta Beauty common stock that may be issued under our equity compensation plans as of February 1, 2025:
Number of securities
Number of securities
remaining available
to be issued upon
Weighted-average
for future issuance
exercise of outstanding
exercise price of
under equity
options, warrants
outstanding options,
compensation
Plan category
and rights (2)
warrants and rights (3)
plans (4)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders (1)
517,518
$
349.12
2,092,045
(1) Includes options issued and available for exercise and shares available for issuance in connection with past awards under the Amended and Restated 2011 Incentive Award Plan and predecessor equity incentive plans. We currently grant awards only under the Amended and Restated 2011 Incentive Award Plan.
(2) Includes 299,339 shares issuable pursuant to the exercise of outstanding stock options, 125,254 shares issuable pursuant to restricted stock units, and 92,925 shares issuable pursuant to performance-based units.
31
Table of Contents
(3) Calculation of weighted-average exercise price of outstanding awards includes stock options but does not include shares of restricted stock units or performance-based units that convert to shares of common stock for no consideration.
(4) Represents shares that are available for issuance pursuant to the Amended and Restated 2011 Incentive Award Plan. The shares available under the plan are reduced by 1.0 for each stock option awarded and by 1.5 for each restricted stock unit and performance-based unit awarded.
Stock performance graph
The following performance graph and related information shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate it by reference into such filing.
Set forth below is a graph comparing the cumulative total stockholder return on Ulta Beauty’s common stock with the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary (Industry Group, SP500-2550) for the period covering February 1, 2020 through the end of Ulta Beauty’s fiscal year ended February 1, 2025. The graph assumes an investment of $100 made at the closing of trading on February 1, 2020 in (i) Ulta Beauty’s common stock, (ii) the stocks comprising the S&P 500 and (iii) the stocks comprising the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary (Industry Group, SP500-2550). All values assume reinvestment of the full amount of all dividends, if any, into additional shares of the same class of equity securities at the frequency with which dividends are paid on such securities during the applicable time period.
Fiscal year ended
February 1,
January 30,
January 29,
January 28,
February 3,
February 1,
Company / Index
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Ulta Beauty
$
100.00
$
104.42
$
133.94
$
188.75
$
188.62
$
153.84
S&P 500
100.00
115.15
137.40
126.20
153.73
187.27
S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary
100.00
140.50
147.90
121.43
169.13
219.98
32
Table of Contents
Item 6. [Rese rved]