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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 742 stockholders of record as of March 16, 2007 and
the closing stock price on that date was $31.62 per share.
Cash dividends. In January 2007, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend payment of $.075 per common
share, payable on or about March 30, 2007. Our Board of Directors declared quarterly cash dividends of $.06 per common share
in January, May, August and November 2006, cash dividends of $.06 per common share in November 2005, and cash dividends
of $.05 per common share in January, May and August 2005.
Issuer purchases of equity securities. Information regarding shares of common stock we repurchased during the fourth quarter
of fiscal 2006 is as follows:
Maximum number
(or approximate
Total number of dollar value)
shares (or units) of shares (or units)
Total number Average purchased as that may yet be
of shares price paid part of publicly purchased under
(or units) per share announced plans the plans or
Period purchased1 (or unit) or programs programs ($000)
November
(10/29/2006–11/25/2006) 320,465 $ 30.87 319,858 $ 242,000
December
(11/26/2006–12/30/2006) 701,024 $ 30.30 700,722 $ 221,000
January
(12/31/2006–2/3/2007) 679,768 $ 32.36 654,059 $ 200,000
Total 1,701,257 $ 31.23 1,674,639 $ 200,000
1 We acquired 26,618 shares during the quarter ended February 3, 2007 related to income tax withholdings for restricted stock. All remaining shares were repurchased under the
two-year $400.0 million stock repurchase program announced in November 2005.
See Note H to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for equity compensation plan information and Item 12 for “Security
Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.”
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 the Company’s common stock over the
last five years with the Standard & Poors 500 Index and the Standard & Poors Retailing Group. The comparison graph assumes
that the value of the investment in the Company’s common stock and the comparative indices was $100 on January 31, 2002
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 the Company’s
actual fiscal year-end date for each period. Data with respect to returns for the Standard & Poors indices is not readily avail-
able 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.