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 trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “RIOT”.
Holders of our Common Stock
As of February 20, 2025, there were approximately 1,676 registered holders of record of our common stock. The actual number of stockholders is greater than this number of record holders and includes stockholders who are beneficial owners but whose shares are held in street name by brokers and other nominees.
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Dividend Policy
We have historically not declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock, and do not intend to pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination regarding the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our Board and will depend on then-existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results, contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects, and other factors our Board may deem relevant.
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Stock Performance Graph
This performance graph shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or incorporated by reference into any filing of Riot Platforms, Inc. under the Securities Act, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
The following graph shows a comparison over a five-year period from December 31, 2019 through December 31, 2024, of the cumulative total return on (a) our common stock (RIOT), (b) our self-constructed Peer Group Index, and (c) the RUSSELL 3000 Index (“RUSSELL 3000”), assuming an aggregate initial investment in each of $100 as of market close on December 31, 2019 (and weighted based on the market cap of each peer in the Peer Group Index as of the market close on December 31, 2019), including reinvestments of any dividends. Such returns are based on historical results and are not intended to suggest future performance. Historically, we have not declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock .
Our self-constructed Peer Group Index consists of publicly traded Bitcoin miners with available publicly traded market data as of, and subsequent to, December 31, 2019, and consists of:, Bitfarms Ltd. (BITF), CleanSpark, Inc. (CLSK), HIVE Digital Technologies, Ltd. (HIVE), Hut 8 Corp. (HUT), Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (MARA), Mawson Infrastructure Group, Inc. (MIGI), and TeraWulf Inc. (WULF).
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Issuer Purchases of Securities
The following table presents the repurchases by us of our common stock during the three months ended December 31, 2024:
Total Number
Maximum
of Shares
Number of
Purchased as
Shares that
Total
Part of
May Yet Be
Number of
Average
Publicly
Purchased
Shares
Price Paid
Announced Plans
Under the Plans
Period
Purchased (a)
per Share (b)
or Programs
or Programs
October 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024
2,233
$
7.08
N/A
N/A
November 1, 2024 through November 30, 2024
-
-
N/A
N/A
December 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024
6,716
10.21
N/A
N/A
Total
8,949
$
9.43
(a) During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, pursuant to our 2019 Equity Incentive Plan , certain of our employees surrendered shares of common stock to us to satisfy statutory minimum federal and state tax obligations associated with the vesting of restricted stock awards.
(b) The price paid per share is based on the closing price of our common stock as of the date of the determination of the statutory minimum for federal and state tax obligations.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities
On July 23, 2024, we issued 7,240,623 shares of our common stock to the sellers in connection with the Block Mining Acquisition. The shares of common stock in connection with the Block Mining Acquisition were issued in reliance upon an exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or the private offering safe harbor provision of Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
On December 1, 2021, we issued 715,413 shares of our common stock, subject to a holdback of 70,165 shares to the sellers in connection with the acquisition of ESS Metron (“ESS Metron Acquisition”). The shares of common stock in connection with the ESS Metron Acquisition were issued in reliance upon an exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Subsequently, we registered for resale the 645,248 shares issued to the sellers at the closing of the ESS Metron Acquisition and the 70,165 shares to the sellers upon expiration of the holdback period during 2023.
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