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 and warrants to purchase our Common Stock are traded on the NYSE under the trading symbols “LVWR” and “LVWR WS”, respectively. Prior to the consummation of the Business Combination on September 26, 2022, ABIC’s Class A ordinary shares and warrants were traded on the NYSE under the trading symbols “IMPX” and “IMPX WS”, respectively.
Holders of Record
As of March 1, 2023, there were 11 shareholders of record of our Common Stock and 3 holders of record of our warrants to purchase our Common Stock. The number of holders of record does not include a substantially greater number of “street name” holders or beneficial holders, whose shares and/or warrants are held of record by banks, brokers and other financial institutions.
Dividend Policy
We have not paid any cash dividends on our Common Stock to date. The payment of cash dividends in the future is dependent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements, the terms of any indebtedness and general financial condition. The payment of any cash dividends will be within the discretion of the Board at such time. In addition, the Board is not currently contemplating and does not anticipate declaring any stock dividends in the foreseeable future.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Offerings; Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer or Affiliated Purchaser
Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities
The information required has been previously disclosed in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 30, 2022.
Use of Proceeds
On October 5, 2020, ABIC consummated its initial public offering of 40,000,000 units. The units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating total gross proceeds of $400 million. The securities in the offering were registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-248785). The SEC declared the registration statement effective on October 1, 2020. Of the gross proceeds received from ABIC’s initial public offering, the full exercise of the over-allotment option and the sale of private placement warrants in connection with the initial public offering, $400 million was placed in a trust account.
On September 26, 2022, we issued (i) 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock as part of a PIPE Investment at a price per share of $10.00, generating gross proceeds of $200,000,000 and (ii) 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock as part of the H-D Backstop Amount at a price per share of $10.00, generating gross proceeds of $100,000,000.
After deducting payments to existing stockholders of approximately $368.1 million in connection with their exercise of redemption rights, the remaining balance immediately prior to the Closing (as defined herein) of approximately $34 million remained in the trust account. The remaining amount in the trust account and the PIPE Investment were used to fund the Merger and related transaction expenses.
Purchases of Equity Securities
We did not repurchase shares of our Common Stock during the three months ended December 31, 2022.
Stock Performance Graph
The following information in this Item 5 is not deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent the Company specifically incorporates it by reference into such a filing.
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The SEC requires the Company to include a line graph presentation comparing cumulative five-year common stock returns, or in the case of LiveWire the Business Combination date, with a broad-based stock index and either a nationally recognized industry index or an index of peer companies selected by the Company. The Company has chosen to use the Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) 500 Index as the broad-based index. The S&P 500 Index was chosen as the Company does not believe any other published industry or line-of-business index adequately represents the current operations of the Company. The graph assumes a beginning investment of $100 on September 26, 2022, the Business Combination date, and that all dividends are reinvested. We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock nor do we anticipate paying any such cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
9/26/2022 9/30/2022 10/31/2022 11/30/2022 12/31/2022
LiveWire Group, Inc. $ 100 $ 76 $ 88 $ 74 $ 52
S&P 500 Index $ 100 $ 98 $ 106 $ 112 $ 106
Item 6. Selected Financial Data
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