Shareholders' Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2014

Shareholders' Equity

Shareholders’ Equity

Share repurchases

Prior to the closing of the Merger, our board of directors, and Tyco as our sole shareholder, authorized the repurchase of our shares with a maximum aggregate value of $400.0 million following the closing of the Merger. In October 2012, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of our shares with a maximum aggregate value of $800.0 million. This authorization expires on December 31, 2015 and is in addition to the $400.0 million share repurchase authorization. There is no remaining availability for repurchase under these 2012 authorizations. In December 2013, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of our shares up to a maximum dollar limit of $1.0 billion. This authorization expires on December 31, 2016 and is in addition to the combined $1.2 billion prior share repurchase authorizations.

During the nine months endedSeptember 27, 2014, we repurchased 11.8 million of our shares for $850.0 million pursuant to these authorizations. As of September 27, 2014, we had $300.0 million remaining available for share repurchases under the December 2013 authorization.

Dividends payable

At our 2014 annual meeting of shareholders held on May 20, 2014, our shareholders approved a proposal to pay quarterly cash dividends through the second quarter of 2015. The authorization provides that dividends of $1.20 per share will be paid to our shareholders in quarterly installments of $0.30 for each of the third and fourth quarters of 2014 and the first and second quarters of 2015. As a result, the balance of dividends payable included in Other current liabilities on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets was $168.1 million and $98.7 million at September 27, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.