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 for Registrant's Common Equity
Our Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, is quoted on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "REGN." Our Class A Stock, par value $.001 per share, is not publicly quoted or traded.
As of January 23, 2025, there were 149 shareholders of record of our Common Stock and 14 shareholders of record of our Class A Stock.
Prior to 2025, no dividends on our Common Stock or Class A Stock had been declared or paid. In February 2025, our board of directors approved the initiation of a quarterly cash dividend program and declared a cash dividend of $0.88 per share on our Common Stock and Class A Stock. The cash dividend will be payable on March 20, 2025 to shareholders of record as of February 20, 2025.
STOCK PERFORMANCE GRAPH
Set forth below is a line graph comparing the cumulative total shareholder return on Regeneron's Common Stock with the cumulative total return of (i) the NASDAQ US Benchmark Pharmaceuticals Total Return Index ("NQ US Pharma TR Index"), and (ii) Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index ("S&P 500") for the period from December 31, 2019 through December 31, 2024. The comparison assumes that $100 was invested on December 31, 2019 in our Common Stock and in both of the foregoing indices. All values assume reinvestment of the pre-tax value of dividends paid by companies included in these indices. The historical stock price performance of our Common Stock shown in the graph below is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
12/31/2019 12/31/2020 12/31/2021 12/31/2022 12/31/2023 12/31/2024
Regeneron $ 100.00 $ 128.66 $ 168.19 $ 192.15 $ 233.91 $ 189.71
S&P 500 $ 100.00 $ 116.26 $ 147.52 $ 118.84 $ 147.64 $ 182.05
NQ US Pharma TR Index $ 100.00 $ 110.52 $ 137.47 $ 153.08 $ 159.01 $ 172.62
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This performance graph shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or incorporated by reference into any filing of ours under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The table below reflects shares of Common Stock we repurchased under our share repurchase programs, as well as Common Stock withheld by us for employees to satisfy their tax withholding obligations arising upon the vesting of restricted stock granted under one of our long-term incentive plans, during the three months ended December 31, 2024. Refer to Part II, Item 7. "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources" for further details of our share repurchase programs.
Period Total Number of Shares Purchased Average Price Paid per Share Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Programs Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be
Purchased Under the Programs (b)
(In millions)
10/1/2024–10/31/2024
316,483 $ 982.90 316,431 $ 2,581.9
11/1/2024–11/30/2024
404,299 $ 782.08 395,051 $ 2,273.3
12/1/2024–12/31/2024
748,201 $ 744.67 483,956 $ 1,916.7
Total 1,468,983 (a)
1,195,438 (a)
(a) The difference between the total number of shares purchased and the total number of shares purchased as part of publicly announced programs relates to Common Stock withheld by us for employees to satisfy their tax withholding obligations arising upon the vesting of restricted stock granted under one of our long-term incentive plans.
(b) In February 2025, our board of directors authorized a share repurchase program to repurchase up to an additional $3.0 billion of our Common Stock. See Part II, Item 7. "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources - Share Repurchase Programs" for further details.
Item 6. [Reserved]