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Capital Stock
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Equity [Abstract]  
Capital Stock
19.

CAPITAL STOCK

 

[a]

At December 31, 2017, the Company’s authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock are as follows:

Preference shares - issuable in series -

The Company’s authorized capital stock includes 99,760,000 preference shares, issuable in series. None of these shares are currently issued or outstanding.

Common Shares -

Common Shares without par value [unlimited amount authorized] have the following attributes:

 

  [i]

Each share is entitled to one vote per share at all meetings of shareholders.

 

  [ii]

Each share shall participate equally as to dividends.

 

[b]

On November 13, 2017, the Toronto Stock Exchange [“TSX”] accepted the Company’s Notice of Intention to Make a Normal Course Issuer Bid relating to the purchase for cancellation, as well as purchases to fund the Company’s stock-based compensation awards or programs and/or the Company’s obligations to its deferred profit sharing plans, of up to 35.8 million Magna Common Shares [the “2017 Bid”], representing approximately 10% of the Company’s public float of Common Shares. The Bid commenced on November 15, 2017 and will terminate no later than November 14, 2018.

 

Previously, the Company had Normal Course Issuer Bids in place for the 12 month periods beginning in November 2016 and 2015.

The following is a summary of the Normal Course Issuer Bids [number of shares in the table below are expressed in whole numbers]:

 

     Maximum      2017      2016  
     number      Shares      Cash      Shares      Cash  
     of shares      purchased      amount      purchased      amount  

2015 Bid

     40,000,000        —        $        20,313,194      $ 818  

2016 Bid

     38,000,000        23,245,377        1,109        2,021,824        86  

2017 Bid

     35,800,000        3,011,666        162        —          —    
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        26,257,043      $ 1,271        22,335,018      $ 904  
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Certain purchases were made by way of private agreements entered into with arm’s length, third party sellers. Such private agreement purchases were made at a discount to the prevailing market price for the Company’s Common Shares and pursuant to issuer bid exemption orders issued by the Ontario Securities Commission. All other purchases of Common Shares are made at the market price at the time of purchase in accordance with the rules and policies of the TSX. Purchases may also be made on the New York Stock Exchange in compliance with Rule 10b-18 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

[c]

The following table presents the maximum number of shares that would be outstanding if all the dilutive instruments outstanding at March 6, 2018 were exercised or converted:

 

Common Shares

     358,395,997  

Stock options (i)

     7,661,769  
  

 

 

 
     366,057,766  
  

 

 

 

 

(i)

Options to purchase Common Shares are exercisable by the holder in accordance with the vesting provisions and upon payment of the exercise price as may be determined from time to time pursuant to the Company’s stock option plans.