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Number of newly issued shares which each right entitles a holder to purchase.

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Common Stock, Dividends, Purchase Right, Declared

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Expiration date of the Rights Plan, unless redeemed, exchanged or terminated earlier by our Board of Directors.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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Date the holder must own the stock to be entitled to the dividend, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

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Amount of stock repurchase plan authorized.

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Amount remaining of a stock repurchase plan authorized.

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