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Cash Dividends | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
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13. | Cash Dividends
On August 13, 2014, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a cash dividend of $0.46 per share. The cash dividend was paid on September 26, 2014, to each stockholder of record on September 12, 2014. Cash dividends aggregated $198 million and $507 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, and $111 million and $278 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013, respectively. The declaration and payment of future dividends is at the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors and will be dependent upon the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements and other factors deemed relevant by the Company’s Board of Directors.

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