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McKESSON CORPORATION
12
PART II
Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters, Issuer Purchases of
Equity Securities and Stock Price Performance Graph
(a) Market Information: The principal market on which the Company’ s common stock is traded is the New York
Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). High and low prices for the common stock by quarter are included in Financial
Note 22 to the consolidated financial statements, “Quarterly Financial Information (Unaudited),” appearing in
this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(b) Holders: The number of record holders of the Company’ s common stock at March 31, 2008 was approximately
9,500.
(c) Dividends: Dividend information is included in Financial Note 22 to the consolidated financial statements,
“Quarterly Financial Information (Unaudited),” appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
In April 2008, the Company’ s Board of Directors (“Board”) approved a change in the Company’ s dividend
policy by increasing the amount of the Company’ s quarterly dividend from six cents to twelve cents per share,
which will apply to ensuing quarterly dividend declarations until further action by the Board.
(d) Share Repurchase Plans: The following table provides information on the Company’ s share repurchases during
the fourth quarter of 2008:
Share Repurchases (1)
(In millions, except price per share) Total Number of
Shares Purchased
Average Price Paid
Per Share
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
As Part of Publicly
Announced
Program
Approximate
Dollar Value of
Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased
Under the
Programs
January 1, 2008 – January 31, 2008 - $ - - $ 1,086
February 1, 2008 – February 29, 2008 8 58.64 8 630
March 1, 2008 – March 31, 2008 5 57.42 5 314
Total 13 58.14 13 314
(1) This table does not include shares tendered to satisfy the exercise price in connection with cashless exercises of employee
stock options or shares tendered to satisfy tax withholding obligations in connection with employee equity awards.
In April and September 2007, the Board approved two new plans to repurchase up to $2.0 billion of the
Company’ s common stock ($1.0 billion per plan). In 2008, we repurchased a total of 28 million shares for $1,686
million, fully utilizing the April 2007 plan, leaving $314 million remaining on the September 2007 plan. In April
2008, the Board approved a new plan to repurchase an additional $1.0 billion of the Company’ s common stock.
Stock repurchases may be made from time-to-time in open market or private transactions.