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Class A Common Stock
−Removed: Our Class A common stock trades on The New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol “GMED.” We had approximately 65 stockholders of record as of February 16, 2024.
−Removed: We believe that the number of beneficial owners is substantially greater than the number of record holders because a large portion of our Class A common stock is held of record through brokerage firms in “street name.”
+Added: Our Class A common stock (“Class A Common”) trades on The New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol “GMED.” We had approximately 60 stockholders of record as of February 18, 2025.
+Added: We believe that the number of beneficial owners is substantially greater than the number of record holders because a large portion of our Class A Common is held of record through brokerage firms in “street name.”
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
−Removed: We repurchase shares of the Company’s Class A common stock pursuant to the publicly announced share repurchase program authorized by the Board of Directors in March 2020 and the expansion of the stock repurchase plan authorized by the Board of Directors in March 2022.
−Removed: On September 27, 2023, the share repurchase program was expanded by authorizing the Company to repurchase an additional $350.0 million of the Company’s Class A common stock.
+Added: We repurchase shares of the Company’s Class A Common pursuant to the publicly announced share repurchase program authorized by the Board of Directors in March 2020 and the expansion of the stock repurchase plan authorized by the Board of Directors in March 2022.
+Added: On September 27, 2023, the share repurchase program was expanded by authorizing the Company to repurchase an additional $350.0 million of the Company’s Class A Common.
The following table provides the activity related to share repurchases for the fourth quarter of 2024.
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December 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
−Removed: (a) On March 11, 2020, our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program that allows for the repurchase up to $200 million of the Company’s Class A common stock.
−Removed: On March 4, 2022, our Board of Directors authorized the expansion of the share repurchase program of the Company’s Class A common stock by an additional $200 million.
−Removed: On September 27, 2023, the share repurchase program was expanded by authorizing the Company to repurchase an additional $350.0 million of the Company’s Class A common stock .
+Added: (a) On March 11, 2020, our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program that allows for the repurchase up to $200 million of the Company’s Class A Common.
+Added: On March 4, 2022, our Board of Directors authorized the expansion of the share repurchase program of the Company’s Class A Common by an additional $200 million.
+Added: On September 27, 2023, the share repurchase program was expanded by authorizing the Company to repurchase an additional $350.0 million of the Company’s Class A Common .
The shares may be purchased through privately negotiated or open market transactions.
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Comparative Stock Performance Graph
−Removed: The following graph illustrates a comparison of the total cumulative stockholder return on our Class A common stock from December 31, 2018 through December 31, 2023 to two indices:
+Added: The following graph illustrates a comparison of the total cumulative stockholder return on our Class A Common from December 31, 2019 through December 31, 2024 to two indices:
the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Health Care Equipment Index.
−Removed: The graph assumes an initial investment of $100 on December 31, 2018, in each of our Class A common stock, the stocks comprising the S&P 500 Index, and the stocks comprising the S&P 500 Health Care Equipment Index, including reinvestment of dividends, if any.
+Added: The graph assumes an initial investment of $100 on December 31, 2019, in each of our Class A Common, the stocks comprising the S&P 500 Index, and the stocks comprising the S&P 500 Health Care Equipment Index, including reinvestment of dividends, if any.
Historical stockholder return is not necessarily indicative of the performance to be expected for any future periods.
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