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Cash Dividends | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016
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Cash Dividends | 12. Cash Dividends On August 18, 2016, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a cash dividend of $0.05 per share. The cash dividend was paid on September 30, 2016, to each stockholder of record on September 16, 2016. Cash dividends were $19 million and $211 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, and $174 million and $537 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, 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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