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 for Common Stock
Our common stock has traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COMP” since April 1, 2021. Prior to that, there was no public market for our common stock.
Stockholders
As of February 23, 2024, there were 208 holders of record of our common stock. The actual number of stockholders is greater than this number of holders of record, and includes stockholders who are beneficial owners, but whose shares are held in street name by brokers and other nominees. This number of holders of record also does not include stockholders whose shares may be held in trust by other entities.
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid, and do not anticipate declaring or paying in the foreseeable future, any cash dividends on our capital stock. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of directors, subject to applicable laws and will depend on then existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results, contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects, and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
See the section titled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” included in Part III, Item 12 of this Annual Report for information regarding securities authorized for issuance.
Stock Performance Graph
The stock performance graph set forth below shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C under, or to the liabilities of Section 18 of, the Exchange Act and will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent the Company specifically incorporates it by reference into such a filing.
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The following graph compares the performance of our common stock to the Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) 500 Index and Peer Group Index by assuming $100 was invested in each investment option as of April 1, 2021, which represents the day our common stock began trading on the NYSE.
Year 4/1/21 12/31/21 12/31/22 12/31/23
COMP $ 100 $ 45.11 $ 11.56 $ 18.66
S&P 500 Index (1)
$ 100 $ 118.57 $ 95.51 $ 118.66
Peer Group Index (2)
$ 100 $ 67.17 $ 23.05 $ 35.64
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(1) S&P 500 Index is a capitalization-weighted index of domestic equities of the largest companies traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ.
(2) Peer Group Index consists of Zillow Group, Inc. (ZG), Redfin Corp (RDFN), Opendoor Technologies Inc. (OPEN), EXP World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) and Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (HOUS).
Sales of Unregistered Securities
From October 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023, we offered, sold and issued the following unregistered securities:
(1) as previously disclosed in Form 4s filed with the SEC, Robert Reffkin, our founder and Chief Executive Officer, exchanged an aggregate of 240,592 shares of Class A common stock for an equivalent number of shares of Class C common stock pursuant to an Equity Exchange Right Agreement on October 3, 2023, November 3, 2023, and December 5, 2023;
(2) as discussed in more detail in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report and disclosed in a Form D filed with the SEC, 2,231,941 shares of Class A common stock were issued on October 6, 2023 in connection with an acquisition, in the amount of $6.5 million; and
(3) as previously disclosed in Form D filed with the SEC, an aggregate of 289,509 shares of Class A common stock were issued on October 16, 2023 in connection with an earnout payment related to a prior acquisition, in the amount of $0.8 million.
The offer, sale and issuance of the securities described above were exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 3(a)(9) and Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act (or Regulation D promulgated thereunder) as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering. The recipients of the securities in each of these transactions
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represented their intentions to acquire the securities for investment only and not with the view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof, and appropriate legends were placed upon the stock certificates issued in these transactions.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None.
Item 6. Reserved.