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, 2024 (the last trading day of the year), the closing price of an AB Holding Unit on the NYSE was $37.09 per Unit. On December 31, 2024, there were (i) 822 AB Holding Unitholders of record for approximately 110,000 beneficial owners, and (ii) 362 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 year ended December 31, 2024, except as previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 19, 2024 in connection with the master exchange agreement and purchase agreement entered into with EQH.
We did not engage in any unregistered sales of our equity securities during the year ended December 31, 2023.
We did not engage in any unregistered sales of our securities during the year ended December 31, 2022 except as previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 1, 2022 in connection with the acquisition of CarVal Investors L.P.
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 adopt a plan during the fourth quarter of 2024. 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 2024 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
10/1/24-10/31/24 — $ — — —
11/1/24-11/30/24 — — — —
12/1/24-12/31/24 (1) (2)
7,541,157 36.27 — —
Total 7,541,157 $ 36.27 — —
(1) During the fourth quarter of 2024, AB retained from employees 2,329,963 AB Holding Units to allow them to fulfill statutory withholding tax requirements at the time of distribution of long-term incentive compensation awards.
(2) Includes 5,211,194 AB Holding Units retired in connection with a master exchange agreement entered into with EQH on December 19, 2024. As the exchange was undertaken on a unit for unit basis and not for cash consideration, there is no purchase price reflected. See Exhibit 10.32 to this Form 10-K.
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