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| SUBSEQUENT EVENTS: | NOTE 15 — SUBSEQUENT EVENTS: Dividends: On April 10, 2025, the Board of Directors authorized a quarterly cash dividend of $0.70 per share of common stock and a stock dividend of 0.0099 shares of common stock per share of common stock, payable on May 19, 2025 to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 2, 2025. In lieu of fractional shares, cash will be distributed to each shareholder who would otherwise have been entitled to receive a fractional share, based on a share price of $81.13, which is the average of the high and low share price on April 10, 2025. Financing: On April 22, 2025, the Company made a payment of $509.7 million related to the first tranche of the fixed-rate senior unsecured notes issued on April 2015. This included the principal payment of $500 million and $9.7 million of accrued interest as of the aforementioned payment date. |