Dividend and Share Repurchases
On October 14, 2020, we announced the reinstatement of our cash dividend in the amount of $0.42 per share payable December 1, 2020 to shareholders of record as of November 10, 2020.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the company repurchased 1,027,736 shares for $34.4 million. Approximately $170.6 million remains available to repurchase shares under the company’s existing share repurchase authorization.
Conference Call
Penske Automotive Group will host a conference call discussing financial results relating to the third quarter of 2020 on Thursday, October 22, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To listen to the conference call, participants must dial (866) 394-1455 – [International, please dial (516) 575-8644] using access code 6795577. The call will also be simultaneously broadcast over the Internet through the Investor’s section of the Penske Automotive Group website. Additionally, an investor presentation relating to the third quarter 2020 financial results has been posted to the company’s website. To access the presentation or to listen to the company’s webcast, please refer to www.penskeautomotive.com.
About Penske Automotive
Penske Automotive Group, Inc., (NYSE:PAG) headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is an international transportation services company that operates automotive and commercial truck dealerships principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Western Europe, and distributes commercial vehicles, diesel engines, gas engines, power systems and related parts and services principally in Australia and New Zealand. PAG is a member of the Fortune 500 and Russell 1000 and 3000 indexes and is ranked among the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune Magazine. For additional information, visit the company’s website at www.penskeautomotive.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under SEC rules, such as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization (“EBITDA”). The company has reconciled these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in the release. The company believes that these widely accepted measures of operating profitability improve the transparency of the company’s disclosures and provide a meaningful presentation of the company’s results from its core business operations excluding the impact of items not related to the company’s ongoing core business operations, and improve the period-to-period comparability of the company’s results from its core business operations. These non-GAAP financial measures are not substitutes for GAAP financial results and