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Preferred Stock. The Company has 8,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized for issuance in one or more series, at a par value of $0.0001 per share. In conjunction with the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement dated as of September 25, 2005 between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as successor Rights Agent to Computershare Investor Services LLC, as amended (the Rights Agreement), 4,000,000 shares of preferred stock were designated as Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock. The Rights Agreement expired on its scheduled expiration date of September 25, 2015, and all shares of preferred stock previously designated as Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock were eliminated and returned to the status of authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock, without designation on September 28, 2015. At September 25, 2016 and September 27, 2015, no shares of preferred stock were outstanding.
Stock Repurchase Program. On March 9, 2015, the Company announced a stock repurchase program authorizing it to repurchase up to $15 billion of the Company’s common stock. The stock repurchase program has no expiration date. During fiscal 2015, the Company entered into two accelerated share repurchase agreements (ASR Agreements) with two financial institutions under which the Company paid an aggregate of $5.0 billion to the financial institutions and received from them a total of 78,276,000 shares of the Company’s common stock based on the average daily volume weighted-average stock price of the Company’s common stock during the respective terms of the ASR Agreements, less a discount. The shares were retired and recorded as a reduction to stockholders’ equity.
During fiscal 2016, 2015 and 2014, the Company repurchased and retired an additional 73,782,000, 94,159,000 and 60,253,000 shares of common stock, respectively, for $3.9 billion, $6.2 billion and $4.5 billion, respectively, before commissions. To reflect share repurchases in the consolidated balance sheet, the Company (i) reduces common stock for the par value of the shares, (ii) reduces paid-in capital for the amount in excess of par to zero during the quarter in which the shares are repurchased and (iii) records the residual amount to retained earnings. At September 25, 2016, $3.0 billion remained authorized for repurchase under the Company’s stock repurchase program. Since September 25, 2016, the Company repurchased and retired 1,865,000 shares of common stock for $124 million.
Dividends. On October 6, 2016, the Company announced a cash dividend of $0.53 per share on the Company’s common stock, payable on December 16, 2016 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 30, 2016. Dividends charged to retained earnings in fiscal 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions, except per share data):
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