Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market for AB Holding Units and AB Units; Cash Distributions
AB Holding Units are listed on the NYSE and trade publicly under the ticker symbol “AB". There is no established public trading market for AB Units, which are subject to significant restrictions on transfer. For information about these transfer restrictions, see “Structure-related Risks” in Item 1A .
AB Holding’s principal source of income and cash flow is attributable to its limited partnership interests in AB.
Each of AB Holding and AB distributes on a quarterly basis all of its Available Cash Flow, as defined in the AB Holding Partnership Agreement and the AB Partnership Agreement, respectively, to its Unitholders and the General Partner. For additional information concerning distribution of Available Cash Flow by AB Holding, see Note 2 to AB Holding’s financial statements in Item 8 . For additional information concerning distribution of Available Cash Flow by AB, see Note 2 to AB’s consolidated financial statements in Item 8.
On December 31, 2021, the closing price of an AB Holding Unit on the NYSE was $48.84 per Unit. On December 31, 2021, there were (i) 928 AB Holding Unitholders of record for approximately 82,000 beneficial owners, and (ii) 317 AB Unitholders of record (we do not believe there are substantial additional beneficial owners).
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities
We did not engage in any unregistered sales of our securities during the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
Each quarter, AB considers whether to implement a plan to repurchase AB Holding Units pursuant to Rules 10b5-1 and 10b-18 under the Exchange Act. We did not, however, adopt a plan during the fourth quarter of 2021. AB may adopt additional plans in the future to engage in open-market purchases of AB Holding Units to help fund anticipated obligations under the firm’s incentive compensation award program and for other corporate purposes. For additional information about Rule 10b5-1 plans, see “Units Outstanding” in Item 7 .
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AB Holding Units bought by us or one of our affiliates during the fourth quarter of 2021 are as follows:
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Period Total
Number of
AB Holding
Units
Purchased Average
Price Paid
Per AB
Holding Unit,
net of
Commissions Total
Number of
AB Holding
Units
Purchased as
Part of
Publicly
Announced
Plans or
Programs Maximum
Number (or
Approximate
Dollar Value)
of AB
Holding
Units that
May Yet Be
Purchased
Under the
Plans or
Programs
10/1/21-10/31/21 (1)(2)
281,579 $ 50.46 — —
11/1/21-11/30/21 — — — —
12/1/21-12/31/21 (1)
2,449,657 49.95 — —
Total 2,731,236 $ 50.00 — —
(1) During the fourth quarter of 2021, we purchased 2,449,716 AB Holding Units from employees to allow them to fulfill statutory withholding tax requirements at the time of distribution of long-term incentive compensation awards.
(2) During the fourth quarter of 2021, we purchased 281,520 AB Holding Units on the open market pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan to help fund anticipated obligations under our incentive compensation award program.
Neither we nor our affiliates bought any AB Units during the fourth quarter of 2021.
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