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PART II
Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Shareholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION
MARKET INFORMATION AND DIVIDEND POLICY
Starbucks common stock is traded on NASDAQ, under the symbol "SBUX."
The following table shows the quarterly high and low sale prices per share of Starbucks common stock as reported by
NASDAQ for each quarter during the last two fiscal years and the quarterly cash dividend declared per share of our common
stock during the periods indicated, as adjusted to give effect to the two-for-one stock split discussed in Note 1, Summary of
Significant Accounting Policies, included in Item 8 of Part II of this 10-K:
High Low
Cash Dividends
Declared
Fiscal 2015:
Fourth Quarter $ 59.32 $ 42.05 $ 0.20
Third Quarter 54.75 46.28 0.16
Second Quarter 49.60 39.28 0.16
First Quarter 42.10 35.39 0.16
Fiscal 2014:
Fourth Quarter $ 40.32 $ 36.89 $ 0.16
Third Quarter 39.18 33.97 0.13
Second Quarter 39.42 34.34 0.13
First Quarter 41.25 37.23 0.13
As of November 6, 2015, we had approximately 17,900 shareholders of record. This does not include persons whose stock is in
nominee or "street name" accounts through brokers.
Future decisions to pay cash dividends continue to be at the discretion of the Board of Directors and will be dependent on our
operating performance, financial condition, capital expenditure requirements, and other factors that the Board of Directors
considers relevant.
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
The following table provides information regarding repurchases of our common stock during the quarter ended September 27,
2015:
Total
Number of
Shares
Purchased
Average
Price
Paid per
Share
Total Number
of Shares
Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced
Plans or
Programs(2)
Maximum
Number of
Shares that May
Yet Be
Purchased
Under the Plans
or Programs
Period(1)
June 29, 2015 — July 26, 2015 7,503,869 $ 55.14 7,503,869 53,497,642
July 27, 2015 — August 23, 2015 200,780 52.03 200,780 53,296,862
August 24, 2015 — September 27, 2015 592,087 56.63 592,087 52,704,775
Total 8,296,736 $ 55.17 8,296,736
(1) Monthly information is presented by reference to our fiscal months during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015.
(2) The share repurchase program is conducted under authorizations made from time to time by our Board of Directors. On
November 15, 2012, we publicly announced the authorization of up to 50 million shares, as adjusted to give effect to the
two-for-one stock split discussed in Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, included in Item 8 of Part II of
this 10-K. On July 23, 2015, we publicly announced the authorization of up to an additional 50 million shares. These
authorizations have no expiration date.
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