Easterly Government Properties, Inc. 10-K

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities Shares of our common stock are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DEA”. We had 24 stockholders of record of our common stock as of February 16, 2021. Certain shares are held in “street” name and accordingly, the number of beneficial owners of such shares is not known or included in the foregoing number. Distribution Policy In order to maintain our qualification as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code, we must distribute at least 90% of our taxable income to stockholders. We intend to pay regular quarterly distributions to holders of our common stock in a manner to satisfy this requirement. Any distributions we make will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will be dependent upon a number of factors, including prohibitions or restrictions under financing agreements or applicable law and other factors described herein. We anticipate distributing all of our taxable income. See Item 1A, “Risk Factors,” and Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations,” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information regarding the sources of funds used for distributions and for a discussion of factors, if any, which may adversely affect our ability to make distributions to our stockholders. Performance Graph The following performance graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return of our common stock with the cumulative total return of the Russell 2000 Index and the cumulative total return of the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index. The FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index represents performance of all publicly-traded US Equity REITs not designated as Timber REITs or Infrastructure REITs. The graph covers the period from December 31, 2015 through December 31, 2020 and assumes that $100 was invested in our common stock and in each index on December 31, 2015 and that all dividends were reinvested. The information in this paragraph and the following performance graph are deemed to be furnished, not filed. 34 Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities None. Recent Purchases of Equity Securities None. Item 6. Reserved