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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, AND RELATED
MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.
The Company’s Class A Common Stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the Ticker Symbol “DDS”. No
public market currently exists for the Class B Common Stock.
The high and low sales prices of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, and dividends declared on each class of
common stock, for each quarter of fiscal 2004 and 2003 are presented in the table below:
Dividends
2004 2003 per Share
High Low High Low 2004 2003
First $19.16 $16.57 $15.10 $12.49 $0.04 $0.04
Second 23.76 15.54 15.08 12.77 0.04 0.04
Third 23.14 18.64 16.92 13.98 0.04 0.04
Fourth 27.54 20.13 17.86 14.46 0.04 0.04
While the Company expects to continue its cash dividend policy during fiscal 2005, all subsequent dividends will be
reviewed quarterly and declared by the board of directors.
As of February 26, 2005, there were 4,567 record holders of the Company's Class A Common Stock and 8 record holders
of the Company's Class B Common Stock.
In May 2000, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $200 million of its
Class A Common Stock. The plan has no expiration date and remaining availability pursuant to our share repurchase
program is $16.1 million as of January 29, 2005. There were no issuer purchases of equity securities during the fourth
quarter of 2004.
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