Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Shareholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market and dividend information
The Company’s common shares are traded on NASDAQ under the trading symbol “PLPC”. The following table sets forth for the periods indicated (i) the high and low closing sale prices per share of the Company’s common shares as reported by the NASDAQ and (ii) the amount per share of cash dividends paid by the Company.
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024
Quarter High Low Dividend High Low Dividend
First $ 152.34 $ 120.05 $ 0.20 $ 138.00 $ 120.23 $ 0.20
Second 159.93 130.74 0.20 135.33 120.42 0.20
Third 206.33 140.59 0.20 137.87 112.94 0.20
Fourth 239.80 186.26 0.21 143.56 121.10 0.20
While the Company expects to continue to pay dividends of a comparable amount in the near term, the declaration and payment of future dividends will be made at the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors in light of the needs of the Company. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the Company will continue to make such dividend payments in the future.
Number of common shareholders
As of March 4, 2026, the Company had approximately 6,385 shareholders of record.
Performance Graph
Historical share price performance should not be relied upon as an indication of future share price performance. The following graph compares the cumulative total return to holders of PLP's common shares against the cumulative total return of the NASDAQ Composite Index and the Hemscott Industry Group 627 (Industrial Electrical Equipment) (the “Peer Group Index”) for the five-year period ended December 31, 2025. The comparison of the cumulative total returns for each investment assumes that $100 was invested in PLP's common shares and the respective indices on December 31, 2020 through December 31, 2025 and assumes the reinvestment of dividends.
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2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO 100.00 95.65 124.28 201.06 193.18 314.11
NASDAQ MARKET INDEX 100.00 122.18 82.43 119.22 154.48 187.14
PEER GROUP INDEX 100.00 119.19 101.26 130.35 138.36 189.32
Repurchases of Equity Securities
On November 1, 2023, the Board of Directors authorized a new plan to repurchase up to an additional 212,952 of Preformed Line Products Company common shares, resulting in a total of 250,000 shares available for repurchase with no expiration date.
Period Total
Number of
Shares
Purchased Average
Price Paid
per Share ($) Total Number of
Shares Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs Maximum Number
of Shares that may
yet be Purchased under the Plans or
Programs
October 850 $ 227.43 850 127,179
November 5,850 $ 217.17 5,850 121,329
December 2,000 $ 207.23 2,000 119,329
Total 8,700
Item 6. [Reserved]
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