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Common Stock
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Common Stock.  
Common Stock

(12) Common Stock

The Class A common stock and Class B common stock have equal dividend and liquidation rights. Each share of the Company’s Class A common stock is entitled to one vote on all matters submitted to stockholders and each share of Class B common stock is entitled to ten votes on all such matters. Shares of Class B common stock are convertible into shares of Class A common stock on a one-to-one basis at the option of the holder. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had reserved a total of 2,343,195 shares of Class A common stock for issuance under its stock-based compensation plans and 6,279,290 shares for conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock.

On July 27, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of the Company’s Class A common stock from time to time on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. On February 6, 2019, the Board of Directors authorized an additional stock repurchase program of up to $150 million of the Company’s Class A common stock to be purchased from time to time on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. For both stock repurchase programs, the Company has entered into a Rule 10b5-1 plan, which permits shares to be repurchased when the Company might otherwise be precluded from doing so under insider trading laws. The repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time, subject to the terms of the Rule 10b5-1 plan the Company

entered into with respect to the repurchase program. The $100 million stock repurchase program was completely expended by August 2019.As of December 31, 2019, there was approximately $142.3 million remaining authorized for share repurchases under the $150 million program.

The following table summarizes the cost and the number of shares of Class A common stock repurchased under the two repurchase programs for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:

Year Ended December 31,

2019

2018

Number of shares

Cost of shares

Number of shares

Cost of shares

    

repurchased

    

repurchased

    

repurchased

    

repurchased

(amounts in millions, except share amount)

Stock repurchase programs:

$100 million

 

146,304

11.8

340,106

26.0

$150 million

81,316

7.7

Total

 

227,620

 

$

19.5

 

340,106

 

$

26.0