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PART II
Item 5. Market for Medtronic’s Common Equity, Related Shareholder Matters, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The Company’s ordinary shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MDT.”
In January 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized, subject to the ongoing existence of sufficient distributable
reserves, the adoption of the existing Medtronic, Inc. share redemption program. As of April 24, 2015, the Company had used
50.3 million of the 80 million shares authorized under the January 2015 share redemption program. In June 2015, the
Company’s Board of Directors authorized, subject to the ongoing existence of sufficient distributable reserves, the redemption
of an additional 80 million of the Company’s ordinary shares. As authorized by the Board of Directors, our share redemption
program expires when the total number of authorized shares have been redeemed.
The following table provides information about shares redeemed by the Company during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015:
Fiscal Period
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
Average Price
Paid per Share
Total Number of Shares
Purchased as a Part of
Publicly Announced
Program
Maximum Number
of Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased
Under the Program
1/24/2015-2/20/2015 — $ — — 33,506,669
2/21/2015-3/27/2015 2,572,700 77.96 2,572,700 30,933,969
3/28/2015-4/24/2015 1,275,619 77.96 1,275,619 29,658,350
Total 3,848,319 $ 77.96 3,848,319 29,658,350
On June 16, 2015, there were approximately 53,730 shareholders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares. Ordinary cash
dividends declared and paid totaled 30.5 cents per share for each quarter of fiscal year 2015 and 28 cents per share for each
quarter of fiscal year 2014. The following prices are the high and low market sales quotations per share of the Company’s
ordinary shares for the quarters indicated:
Fiscal 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter
2015 High $ 65.50 $ 67.11 $ 77.39 $ 79.50
2015 Low 57.81 59.83 65.51 70.91
2014 High 55.63 57.88 60.93 62.90
2014 Low 46.17 51.22 55.56 53.33
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