Company: CRAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001053706-25-000007
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Company: CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
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, we announced that our Board of Directors authorized an expansion to our existing share repurchase program of an additional $45.0 million of outstanding shares of our common stock. We may repurchase shares under this program in open market purchases (including through any Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted by us) or in privately negotiated transactions in accordance with applicable insider trading and other securities laws and regulations. Approximately $13.1 million and $58.1 million was available for future repurchases under this program as of December 28, 2024 and February 20, 2025, respectively. We expect to continue to repurchase shares under this program.

Shareholder Return Performance Graph and Dividend Information. (1)    The graph below compares the cumulative 5-year total return of holders of our common stock with the cumulative total returns of the NASDAQ Composite index and a customized peer group of three companies consisting of Exponent Inc., FTI Consulting Inc. and Huron Consulting Group Inc.

The graph tracks the cumulative shareholder return calculated on a dividend-reinvested basis of a $100 investment in our common stock, in a customized peer group, and in a market index over a 5-year period. The graph assumes the $100 was invested on the last calendar day of 2019 in stock or an index, where the index is calculated on a month-end basis. We initiated a quarterly dividend in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 and continued to pay quarterly dividends throughout fiscal 2024. 

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Although we anticipate paying regular quarterly dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future, the declaration of any future dividends is subject to the discretion of our Board of Directors.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN

Among CRA International, Inc., the NASDAQ Composite Index, and a Peer Group

December 28,2019January 2,2021January 1,2022December 31,2022December 30,2023December 28,2024CRA International, Inc. $100.00 $97.16 $180.37 $239.77 $196.49 $375.29 NASDAQ Composite$100.00 $144.92 $177.06 $119.45 $172.77 $223.87 Peer Group$100.00 $110.08 $139.92 $137.83 $154.95 $