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PART II
Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters, and
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our common stock is traded on the NYSE under the symbol "UNP". The following table presents the dividends
declared and the high and low closing prices of our common stock for each of the indicated quarters.
2006 - Dollars Per Share Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Dividends ................................................... $ 0.30 $ 0.30 $ 0.30 $ 0.30
Common stock price:
High ................................................... 93.73 97.49 92.96 96.16
Low .................................................... 77.62 83.83 78.65 86.27
2005 - Dollars Per Share
Dividends ................................................... $ 0.30 $ 0.30 $ 0.30 $ 0.30
Common stock price:
High ................................................... 70.10 70.19 72.20 81.26
Low .................................................... 58.18 60.85 63.52 66.89
At January 31, 2007, there were 270,752,306 shares of outstanding common stock and 34,937 common
shareholders of record. At that date, the closing price of the common stock on the NYSE was $101.00. We have
paid dividends to our common shareholders during each of the past 107 years. We declared dividends totaling
$323 million in 2006 and $316 million in 2005. On January 30, 2007, we increased the quarterly dividend to $0.35
per share, payable beginning on April 2, 2007, to shareholders of record on February 28, 2007. We are subject to
certain restrictions regarding retained earnings with respect to the payment of cash dividends to our shareholders.
The amount of retained earnings available for dividends increased to $7.8 billion at December 31, 2006, from $6.2
billion at December 31, 2005.
Five-Year Performance Comparison – The following graph provides an indicator of cumulative total shareholder
returns for the Corporation as compared to a peer group index, comprised of Burlington Northern Sante Fe
Corporation, CSX Corporation, and Norfolk Southern Corporation; the Dow Jones Transportation Index (Dow
Jones); and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (S&P 500). The graph assumes that the value of the investment
in Union Pacific Corporation’s common stock and each index was $100 on December 31, 2001, and that all
dividends were reinvested.
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Value of $100 Investment
UPC Peer GroupDJ Trans S&P 500
Comparison of Five-Year Cumulative Returns
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