Common Stock Repurchases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 2019

Text Block [Abstract]

Common Stock Repurchases

11. Common Stock Repurchases

We periodically repurchase, at the then current market price, and cancel shares of Dorman common stock issued to the Dorman Products, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Plan and Trust (the “401(k) Plan”). 401(k) Plan participants can no longer purchase shares of Dorman common stock as an investment option under the 401(k) Plan. Shares are generally purchased from the 401(k) Plan when participants sell units as permitted by the 401(k) Plan or elect to leave the 401(k) Plan upon retirement, termination or other reasons. For the thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019, we repurchased and cancelled 17,710 shares of common stock for $1.6 million at an average price of $88.82 per share. During the fifty-two weeks ended December 29, 2018, we repurchased and cancelled 26,280 shares of common stock for $2.0 million at an average price of $74.79 per share.

Our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program of up to $400 million through December 31, 2020. Under this program, share repurchases may be made from time to time depending on market conditions, share price, share availability and other factors at our discretion. The share repurchase program does not obligate us to acquire any specific number of shares. For the thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2019, we repurchased and cancelled 272,564 shares of common stock for $22.8 million at an average price of $83.53 per share under this program. For the fifty-two weeks ended December 29, 2018, we repurchased and cancelled 622,223 shares of common stock for $43.4 million at an average price of $69.73 per share under this program.