Capital Stock

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

6.	Capital Stock

Net income per share

Net income per share is computed based on the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented. Additionally, diluted earnings per share data gives effect to all potentially dilutive common shares that were outstanding during the periods presented. For the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, stock options of 0.2 million and 1.3 million, respectively, and for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, stock options of 0.6 million and 1.2 million, respectively, were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share because they were anti-dilutive.

Dividends

In February, April and July 2020, the Company’s board of directors declared quarterly cash dividends of $0.375 per share. These quarterly cash dividends of $20.7 million, $19.4 million and $19.2 million were paid on March 11, 2020, June 10, 2020 and September 9, 2020 to stockholders of record on February 28, 2020, May 29, 2020 and August 28, 2020. In October 2020, the Company’s board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.375 per share to be paid on December 9, 2020 to stockholders of record on November 27, 2020.

Repurchase of common stock

During the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company repurchased 0.4 million shares and zero shares of its Class A common stock under its stock repurchase plan for $20.0 million and zero, respectively. During the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company repurchased 4.8 million shares and 14,000 shares of its Class A common stock under its stock repurchase plan for $127.4 million and $0.8 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2020, $342.8 million was available for repurchases under the Company’s stock repurchase plan.