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Sonic at a glance
The improvement in company
drive-in margins during scal
2014, reecting leverage from
same-store sales growth and
strategies to improve store-
level protability.
90bps
The increase in system-wide same-store sales
for scal 2014, the fourth consecutive year of
increasingly positive same-store sales.
+3.5%
The initial rate of Sonic’s quarterly cash dividend
that commenced in November 2014. This dividend,
combined with a $105 million share repurchase
authorization, means more than $124 million is
expected to be returned to shareholders during the
upcoming scal year.