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
The Common Stock of the Company is listed and traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “LSTR.”
The reported last sale price per share of the Common Stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on January 24, 2025 was $173.04 per share. As of such date, Landstar had 35,316,073 shares of Common Stock outstanding and had 136 stockholders of record of its Common Stock. However, the Company estimates that it has a significantly greater number of stockholders because a substantial number of the Company’s shares are held by brokers or dealers for their customers in street name.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Company
The following table provides information regarding the Company’s purchase of its Common Stock during the period from September 29, 2024 to December 28, 2024, the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter:
Fiscal Period
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
Average Price
Paid Per Share (1)
Total Number of
Shares Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Programs
Maximum Number of
Shares That May Yet
Be Purchased Under
the Programs
September 28, 2024
2,563,081
Sept. 29, 2024 – Oct. 26, 2024
—
$
—
—
2,563,081
Oct. 27, 2024 – Nov. 23, 2024
15,100
178.96
15,100
2,547,981
Nov. 24, 2024 – Dec. 28, 2024
—
—
—
2,547,981
Total
15,100
$
178.96
15,100
(1)
The average price paid per share does not include the 1% excise tax on net stock repurchases, as applicable.
On December 7, 2021, the Landstar System, Inc. Board of Directors authorized the Company to purchase up to 1,912,824 shares of the Company’s Common Stock from time to time in the open market and in privately negotiated transactions. On December 6, 2022, the Landstar System, Inc. Board of Directors authorized the Company to purchase up to 1,900,826 additional shares of the Company’s Common Stock from time to time in the open market and in privately negotiated transactions. On December 4, 2023, the Landstar System, Inc. Board of Directors authorized the Company to purchase up to 319,332 additional shares of its Common Stock from time to time in the open market and in privately negotiated transactions under its share purchase program. As of December 28, 2024, the Company had authorization to purchase in the aggregate up to 2,547,981 shares of its Common Stock under these programs. No specific expiration date has been assigned to the December 7, 2021, December 6, 2022 or December 4, 2023 authorizations.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
The Company maintains a stock compensation plan for members of its Board of Directors, the 2022 Directors Stock Compensation Plan (the “2022 DSCP”), and an employee equity incentive plan, the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2011 EIP”). The following table presents information related to securities authorized for issuance under these plans at December 28, 2024:
Plan Category
Number of Securities
to be Issued Upon
Exercise of
Outstanding Options
Weighted-average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding Options
Number of Securities
Remaining Available for
Future Issuance Under
Equity Compensation
Plans
Equity Compensation Plans Approved by Security Holders
0
0
2,981,152
Equity Compensation Plans Not Approved by Security Holders
0
0
0
Under the 2011 EIP, the issuance of (i) a non-vested share of Landstar Common Stock issued in the form of restricted stock and (ii) a share of Landstar Common Stock issued upon the vesting of a previously granted restricted stock unit each counts as the issuance of two securities against the number of securities available for future issuance. Included in the number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans were 181,450 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the 2022 DSCP.
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Financial Model Shareholder Returns
The following graph illustrates the return that would have been realized, assuming reinvestment of dividends, by an investor who invested $100 in each of the Company’s Common Stock, the Standard and Poor’s 500 Stock Index and the Dow Jones Transportation Stock Index for the period commencing December 28, 2019 through December 28, 2024.
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