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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.
General information. See the information set forth under the caption “Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited)” under Note K
of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Our
stock is traded on The NASDAQ Global Select Market® under the symbol ROST. There were 757 stockholders of record as of
March 13, 2009 and the closing stock price on that date was $33.01 per share.
Cash dividends. In January 2009, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend payment of $.11 per common
share, payable on March 31, 2009. Our Board of Directors declared quarterly cash dividends of $.095 per common share in
January, May, August, and November 2008, and cash dividends of $.075 per common share in January, May, August, and
November 2007.
Issuer purchases of equity securities. Information regarding shares of common stock we repurchased during the fourth
quarter of fiscal 2008 is as follows:
Total number of Maximum number
Total shares (or units) (or approximate dollar
number of Average purchased as part value) of shares (or
shares price paid of publicly units) that may yet be
(or units) per share announced plans purchased under the
Period purchased1 (or unit) or programs plans or programs ($000)2
November
(11/02/2008-11/29/2008) 467,127 $ 26.70 466,677 $ 356,142
December
(11/30/2008-01/03/2009) 1,093,372 $ 28.88 1,093,372 $ 324,563
January
(01/04/2009-01/31/2009) 851,463 $ 30.41 806,263 $ 300,000
Total 2,411,962 $ 29.00 2,366,312 $ 300,000
1 We acquired 45,650 shares of treasury stock during the quarter ended January 31, 2009 related to income tax withholdings for restricted stock. All remaining shares were
repurchased under our publicly announced stock repurchase program.
2 In January 2008 our Board of Directors approved a two-year $600 million stock repurchase program for fiscal 2008 and 2009.
See Note H of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for equity compensation plan information. The information
under Item 12 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K under the caption “Equity compensation plan information” is incorporated
herein by reference.
Stockholder Return Performance Graph
The following information in this Item 5 shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Act of 1934,
nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933.
Set forth below is a line graph comparing the cumulative total stockholder returns for our common stock with the
Standard & Poors (“S&P”) 500 Index and the S&P Retailing Group over the last five years. The five year period comparison
graph assumes that the value of the investment in our common stock at each fiscal year end and the comparative indexes was
$100 on January 30, 2004 and measures the performance of this investment as of the last trading day in the month of January
for each of the following five years. These measurement dates are based on the historical month-end data available and may
vary slightly from our actual fiscal year-end date for each period. Data with respect to returns for the S&P indexes is not readily
available for periods shorter than one month. The total return assumes the reinvestment of dividends at the frequency with
which dividends are paid. The graph is a historical representation of past performance only and is not necessarily indicative
of future returns to stockholders.