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9
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES
OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market Price and Related Matters
Our common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”) under the trading symbol “SMRT”. On March 25, 2011,
there were 1,114 stockholders. The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices of our common stock per NASDAQ for
each quarter in the years ended January 29, 2011 and January 30, 2010:
2010 2009
High Low High Low
First Quarter $10.91 $7.70 $ 4.82 $1.00
Second Quarter 10.14 5.90 11.45 3.71
Third Quarter 10.14 6.56 13.75 8.94
Fourth Quarter 10.89 7.75 11.89 7.90
Dividends
On November 10, 2010, the Board of Directors declared a special cash dividend of $0.50 per common share that was paid on
December 22, 2010 to shareholders of record on December 8, 2010.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table provides information regarding repurchases of our common stock during the quarter ended January 29, 2011:
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Period
Total
numbe
r
of shares
purchased
Average
price
paid pe
share
Total number o
f
shares purchased
as part of publicly
announced plans
or programs (1)
Maximum numbe
r
of shares that may
yet be purchased
under the plans o
r
programs (1)
October 31, 2010 – November 27, 2010 2,503 $9.91 2,503 530,492
November 28, 2010 – January 1, 2011 610,075 9.75 610,075 620,417
January 2, 2011 – January 29, 2011 957 8.84 957 619,460
Total 613,535 $9.75 613,535 619,460
(1) Our Open Market Repurchase Program is conducted pursuant to authorizations made from time to time by our Board of
Directors. The shares reported in this table are covered by an April 17, 2007 Board authorization to repurchase 2.5 million
shares of common stock and a December 14, 2010 Board authorization to repurchase 700,000 shares of common stock, neither
of which have an expiration date. All of these repurchases are for taxes due on the vesting of employee stock awards which fall
under the repurchase program.