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PART II
Item 5: Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of
Equity Securities
The Company’s Common Shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CAH.”
The following table reflects the range of the reported high and low closing prices of the Common Shares as
reported on the New York Stock Exchange Composite Tape and the per share dividends declared for the fiscal
years ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, and from July 1, 2008 through the period ended on August 25, 2008, the
last full trading day prior to the date of the filing of this Form 10-K.
High Low Dividends
Fiscal 2007
Quarter Ended:
September 30, 2006 ............................................... $70.42 $62.80 $0.09
December 31, 2006 ............................................... 66.38 61.83 0.09
March 31, 2007 .................................................. 72.95 63.93 0.09
June 30, 2007 .................................................... 75.28 69.07 0.12
Fiscal 2008
Quarter Ended:
September 30, 2007 ............................................... $71.28 $62.53 $0.12
December 31, 2007 ............................................... 68.03 56.47 0.12
March 31, 2008 .................................................. 61.48 49.80 0.12
June 30, 2008 .................................................... 57.31 50.63 0.14
Fiscal 2009
Through August 25, 2008 .......................................... $56.34 $50.64 $0.14
As of August 25, 2008 there were approximately 18,260 shareholders of record of the Common Shares.
The Company anticipates that it will continue to pay quarterly cash dividends in the future. The payment
and amount of future dividends remain, however, within the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors and
will depend upon the Company’s future earnings, financial condition, capital requirements and other factors. As
noted above, the Company has publicly announced that its management is actively exploring a potential
separation of the Company’s new Healthcare Supply Chain Services and Clinical and Medical Products
reportable segments. The separation being explored could involve a tax-free spin-off of all or a portion of the
businesses comprising the Clinical and Medical Products reportable segment as a separate, publicly traded
company.
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
Program (2)
Approximate Dollar
Value of Shares
That May Yet be
Purchased Under the
Program (2)
April 1 – 30, 2008 ........................ 955 $52.45 — $1,656,425,173
May 1 – 31, 2008 ......................... 264 55.25 — 1,656,425,173
June 1 – 30, 2008 ......................... 2,073 52.60 — 1,250,377,214
Total ................................... 3,292 $52.77 — $1,250,377,214
(1) Includes 185, 164, and 140 Common Shares purchased in April, May and June 2008, respectively, through a
rabbi trust as investments of participants in the Company’s Deferred Compensation Plan. Also includes 770,
100, and 1,933 restricted shares surrendered in April, May and June 2008, respectively, by employees upon
vesting to meet tax withholding.
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