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13
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The company's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange and Nasdaq
National Market under the symbol WAG. As of October 31, 2004 there were 104,128 recordholders of company
common stock according to the records maintained by the company's transfer agent.
The range of the sales prices of the company's common stock by quarters during the two years ended August 31,
2004, are incorporated herein by reference to the note “Common Stock Prices” on page 36 of this Form 10-K/A.
The range of the company’ s cash dividends per common share during the two fiscal years ended August 31, 2004, are
as follows:
Quarter Ended 2004 2003
November $.043125
$.037500
February .043125
.037500
May .043125
.037500
August .052500
.043125
Fiscal Year $.181875
$.155625
The following table provides information about purchases by the company during the quarter ended August
31, 2004 of equity securities that are registered by the company pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act:
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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 (2)
Approximate Dollar Value of
Shares that May Yet Be
Purchased Under the Plans or
Programs (2)
06/01/2004 -
06/30/2004 - - - -
07/01/2004-
07/31/2004 1,000,000 $36.84 - -
08/01/2004-
08/31/2004 2,138,500 $36.45 600,000 $978,041,035
Total 3,138,500 $36.57 600,000 $978,041,035
(1) The company repurchased an aggregate of 2,538,500 shares of its common stock in open-market transactions to
satisfy the requirements of the company's employee stock purchase and option plans, as well as the company's
Nonemployee Director Stock Plan. These share repurchases were not made pursuant to a publicly announced repurchase
plan or program.
(2) On July 14, 2004, the Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase program, pursuant to which up to $1 billion
of the company’ s common stock may be repurchased. This program was announced in the company’ s Current Report on
Form 8-K, which was filed on July 15, 2004. The total remaining authorization under the repurchase program was
$978,041,035 as of August 31, 2004. The expiration date of the repurchase program is July 13, 2008.