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Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MSA.” On February 7, 2025, there were 138 registered holders of our shares of common stock.
+Added: A substantially greater number of holders of our common stock are “street name” or beneficial holders, whose shares are held by banks, brokers and other financial institutions.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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The share repurchase program authorizes up to $200.0 million in repurchases of MSA common stock in the open market and in private transactions.
−Removed: The share purchase program has no expiration date.
+Added: The share repurchase program has no expiration date.
The maximum number of shares that may be purchased is calculated based on the dollars remaining under the program and the respective month-end closing share price.
We have purchased a total of 166,292 shares, or $29.9 million, since this program's inception.
−Removed: The above shares purchased during the quarter related to stock-based compensation transactions.
We do not have any other share repurchase programs.
+Added: The above shares purchased during the quarter, excluding those related to the share repurchase program, related to stock-based compensation transactions.
Comparison of Five-Year Cumulative Total Return
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.