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 listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the trading symbol “EAF.”
Holders
As of December 31, 2025, there were eight registered holders of record of our common stock. A substantially greater number of holders of our common stock are “street name” or beneficial holders, whose shares of record are held by banks, brokers, and other financial institutions.
Dividend Policies and Restrictions
In the first and second quarters of 2023, we paid a quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per common share. On August 2, 2023, our Board of Directors elected to suspend the quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per common share.
There can be no assurance that we will resume paying dividends in the future in these amounts or at all. Our Board of Directors may change the timing and amount of any future dividend payments, if reinstated, or eliminate the payment of future dividends in its sole discretion, without any prior notice to our stockholders. Our ability to pay dividends will depend upon many factors, including our financial position and liquidity, results of operations, legal requirements, restrictions that are imposed by the terms of our current credit facilities, restrictions that may be imposed by the terms of our future credit facilities and other debt obligations and other factors deemed relevant by our Board of Directors.
For further discussion of the factors that may affect our business and our ability to pay dividends, see “Risk Factors—Risks related to our business and industry” in Part 1, Item 1A, Risk Factors.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
The information about our common stock that may be issued under our Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan as of December 31, 2025 is set forth in Part III, Item 12, “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” of this Report under the caption “Equity Compensation Plan Information.”
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On July 31, 2019, we announced that our Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to $100.0 million of our common stock in open market purchases, including under Rule 10b5-1 and/or Rule 10b-18 plans. On November 4, 2021, we announced that our Board of Directors approved the repurchase of an additional $150.0 million of our common stock under this program . Approximately $99.0 million of the total $250.0 million authorized remained available for stock repurchases as of December 31, 2025. The stock repurchase program has no expiration date. During the quarter ended December 31, 2025, there was no share repurchase activity.
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Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return of our common stock, the Russell 2000 Index and the NYSE Arca Steel Index (TR). The graph assumes the investing of $100 from December 31, 2020 through December 31, 2025, with dividends assumed to be reinvested when received. The performance reflected below is not necessarily indicative of future performance.
Item 6. [Reserved]
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