Stock Repurchase Program

In November 2016, the Board Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion of Common Stock. These repurchases can be conducted on the open market or as private purchases and may include the use of derivative contracts with large financial institutions, in all cases subject to compliance with applicable law. Repurchases are funded using the Company’s onshore cash and onshore cash generation. This repurchase program has no termination date and may be suspended or discontinued at any time.

Repurchases under the repurchase program were as follows during the periods indicated:



Period	Total Number of Shares Repurchased	Total Cost of Repurchase		Average Price Paid per Share⁽¹⁾		Amount Available Under Repurchase Program
	(in thousands, except per share data)
Available balance as of June 26, 2016						$	229,094
Quarter ended September 25, 2016	—	$	—	$	—	$	229,094
Board authorization, November 2016						$	1,000,000
Quarter ended December 25, 2016	619	$	65,014	$	105.01	$	934,986
Quarter ended March 26, 2017	1,223	$	139,760	$	114.30	$	795,226
Quarter ended June 25, 2017	2,672	$	513,085	$	128.29	$	282,141

(1) Average price paid per share excludes effect of accelerated share repurchases, see additional disclosure below regarding our accelerated share repurchase activity during the fiscal year.

In addition to shares repurchased under the Board-authorized repurchase program shown above, the Company acquired 809,427 shares at a total cost of $93.8 million during the 12 months ended June 25, 2017, which the Company withheld through net share settlements to cover minimum tax withholding obligations upon the vesting of restricted stock unit awards granted under the Company’s equity compensation plans. The shares retained by the Company through these net share settlements are not a part of the Board-authorized repurchase program but instead are authorized under the Company’s equity compensation plans.

On April 19, 2017, the Company entered into two separate accelerated share repurchase agreements (collectively, the “ASR”) with two financial institutions to repurchase a total of $500 million of Common Stock. The Company took an initial delivery of approximately 2,570,000 shares, which represented 70% of the prepayment amount divided by the Company’s closing stock price on April 19, 2017. The total number of shares to be received under the ASR is based upon the average daily volume weighted average price of our Common Stock during the repurchase period, less an agreed upon discount. Following the fiscal year end, the counterparties designated June 30, 2017, as the termination date, at which time the Company settled the ASR. Approximately 780,000 shares were received at final settlement, which resulted in a weighted-average share price of approximately $149.16 for the transaction period.