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 Common Stock
German American Bancorp, Inc.’s stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol GABC.
The Common Stock was held of record by approximately 3,208 shareholders at February 23, 2022.
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462 South 4th Street
Louisville, KY 40202-3467
Contact: Shareholder Relations
(800) 884-4225 Shareholder
Information and
Corporate Office: Terri A. Eckerle
German American Bancorp, Inc.
P.O. Box 810
Jasper, Indiana 47547-0810
(812) 482-1314
(800) 482-1314
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the Company’s five-year cumulative total returns with those of the Russell 2000 Stock Index, Russell Microcap Stock Index, and the Indiana Bank Peer Group. The Indiana Bank Peer Group (which is a custom peer group identified by Company management) includes all Indiana-based commercial bank holding companies (excluding companies owning thrift institutions that are not regulated as bank holding companies) that have been in existence as commercial bank holding companies throughout the five-year period ended December 31, 2021, the stocks of which have been traded on an established securities market (NYSE, NYSE American or Nasdaq) throughout that five-year period. The companies comprising the Indiana Bank Peer Group for purposes of the December 2021 comparison were: 1st Source Corp., First Financial Corp., First Merchants Corp., Lakeland Financial Corp., Old National Bancorp, Horizon Bancorp, First Internet Bancorp, and First Savings Financial Corp. The returns of each company in the Indiana Bank Peer Group have been weighted to reflect the company’s market capitalization. The Russell 2000 Stock Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe, is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index (which measures the performance of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies) that includes approximately 2,000 of the smallest securities in that index based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership, and is annually reconstituted at the end of each June. The Russell Microcap Stock Index is an index representing the smallest 1,000 securities in the small-cap Russell 2000 Index plus the next 1,000 securities, which is also annually reconstituted at the end of each June. The Company’s stock is currently included in the Russell 2000 Index and Russell Microcap Index.
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Stock Repurchase Program Information
The following table sets forth information regarding the Company’s purchases of its common shares during each of the three months ended December 31, 2021.
Period Total Number of Shares
(or Units) Purchased Average Price Paid Per Share (or Unit) Total Number of Shares (or Units) Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (1)
Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value) of Shares (or Units) that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (1)
October 2021 — $ — — 1,000,000
November 2021 — — — 1,000,000
December 2021 — — — 1,000,000
Totals — $ — —
(1) On January 25, 2021, the Company's Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase program for up to 1.0 million of its outstanding common shares. The Company did not repurchase any shares of common stock under the repurchase plan during the quarter ended December 31, 2021.
On January 31, 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors terminated the 2021 repurchase program and approved a new plan to repurchase up to 1.0 million shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock. On a share basis, the amount of common stock subject to the new repurchase plan represented approximately 3% of the Company’s outstanding shares on the date it was approved, which was inclusive of the approximately 2.9 million shares issued in conjunction with the CUB acquisition. The Company is not obligated to purchase any shares under the plan, and the plan may be discontinued at any time. The actual timing, number and share price of shares purchased under the repurchase plan will be determined by the Company at its discretion and will depend upon such factors as the market price of the stock, general market and economic conditions and applicable legal requirements. The Company has not repurchased any shares of common stock under the 2022 repurchase plan.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
T he Company maintains three equity incentive plans under which it has authorized the issuance of its Common Shares to employees and non-employee directors as compensation: its 2009 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (under which no new grants may be made), its 2019 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 LTI Plan”) and its 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2019 ESPP”). Each of these plans was approved by the requisite vote of the Company’s common shareholders in the year of adoption by the Board of Directors. The Company is not a party to any individual compensation arrangement involving the authorization for issuance of its equity securities to any single person, other than option agreements and restricted stock award agreements that have been granted under the terms of one of the three plans identified above. The following table sets forth information regarding these plans as of December 31, 2021:
Plan Category Number of Securities
to be Issued upon Exercise
of Outstanding Options, Warrants or Rights Weighted Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights Number of Securities
Remaining Available for
Future Issuance under
Equity Compensation
Plans (Excluding
Securities Reflected in First Column)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders — (a) $ — (a) 1,630,772 (b)
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders — — —
Total — $ — 1,630,772
(a) On December 31, 2021, participants under the 2019 ESPP exercised options to purchase 5,615 Common Shares at the purchase price of $40.46 per share. The Company settled the option exercises in January 2022 with shares purchased on the open market.
(b) Represents 750,000 shares at December 31, 2021 that the Company may in the future issue to employees under the 2019 ESPP (although the Company typically purchases the shares needed for sale to participating employees on the open market rather than issuing new issue shares to such employees) and 880,772 shares that were available for grant or issuance at December 31, 2021 under the 2019 LTI Plan. As stated in note (a) above, the Company settled certain option exercises in January 2022 with shares purchased on the open market. The issuance of such reacquired shares will result in a 5,615 share reduction in the amount remaining available for future issuance.
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For additional information regarding the Company’s equity incentive plans and employee stock purchase plan, see Note 8 (Shareholders’ Equity) of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of this Report.
Item 6. [Reserved]
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