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 Information
Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “ARRY.”
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Holders of Record
As of February 23, 2024, there were approximately five stockholders of record of our common stock, which does not include shares held in street name.
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid any distributions or dividends on our common stock, except the special distribution paid to ATI Investment Parent, LLC (“Former Parent”) upon the closing of our initial public offering (“IPO”). We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any cash distributions or dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to declare cash distributions or dividends will be made at the discretion of our board of directors, subject to applicable laws and provisions of our debt agreements and organizational documents, after taking into account our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, general business conditions and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.
We also have a series of preferred stock, the Series A Shares (as defined below), that accrues dividends in kind until the fifth anniversary of the initial closing of the Series A Shares issuance, August 11, 2026. Following August 11, 2026, dividends are payable only in cash. For more information regarding Series A Shares dividends, see Note 12 – Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock .
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Our Equity Compensation Plans
Information regarding securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans is incorporated herein by reference to Item 12., “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” of Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total return on our common stock since the date of our IPO, in October 2020, with (i) the cumulative total returns of the Russel 2000 Index and (ii) a customized peer group of four companies (Enphase Energy, Solaredge Technologies, Shoals Technologies Group and FTC Solar). The graph assumes an investment of $100 (including reinvestment of dividends) is made in Array’s common stock, the Russel 2000 Index and the peer group on October 15, 2020, and tracks the results through December 31, 2023. Past stock performance as shown in the graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
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Recent Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities
Series A Redeemable Perpetual Preferred
On August 10, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) pursuant to which on August 11, 2021, the Company issued and sold to BCP Helios Aggregator L.P., an investment vehicle of funds affiliated with Blackstone Inc. (the “Purchaser”), 350,000 shares of its newly designated Series A Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Series A Shares”), and 7,098,765 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $346.0 million (the “Initial Closing”). Further, pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, on September 27, 2021, the Company issued and sold to the Purchaser 776,235 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $776 (the “Prepaid Forward Contract”).
On January 7, 2022, pursuant to the Put Option, the Company issued and sold to the Purchaser 50,000 shares of Series A Shares and 1,125,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in an additional closing for an aggregate purchase price of $49.4 million (the “Additional Closing”). The securities issued pursuant to the
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Securities Purchase Agreement were offered, issued, and sold in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act set forth under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
For more information regarding the Series A Shares and our unregistered sales of equity securities, see Note 12 – Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock to the accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
None.
Item 6. Reserved
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