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 is traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “SKYW.” As of February 10, 2023, there were approximately 3,917 stockholders of record of our common stock. Securities held of record do not include shares held in securities position listings. The transfer agent for our common stock is Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dividends
The Company did not declare dividends for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022. Pursuant to the terms of our agreements with Treasury, the Company was restricted from paying dividends through September 30, 2022. There can be no assurance that we will pay dividends in the future.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our Board of Directors has adopted a stock repurchase program which authorizes the Company to repurchase shares of our common stock in the public market or in private transactions, from time to time, at prevailing prices. Our stock repurchase program was authorized in 2019 for the repurchase of up to $250.0 million of our common stock. As of December 31, 2022, we had repurchased 1,966,353 shares of our common stock for $110.4 million under this authorization. No shares of common stock were repurchased under our repurchase program during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022. We may resume stock repurchases under our 2019 program now that the restrictions under our agreements with Treasury have lapsed.
Stock Performance Graph
The following Performance Graph and related information shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or “filed” with the SEC, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), except to the extent we specifically incorporate it by reference into such filing.
The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return on our common stock over the five-year period ended December 31, 2022, with the cumulative total return during such period of the Nasdaq Stock Market (U.S. Companies) and the Nasdaq Stock Market Transportation Index. The following graph assumes an initial investment of $100.00 with dividends reinvested. The stock performance shown on the graph below represents historical stock performance and is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
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INDEXED RETURNS
Base
Period
Years Ending
Company Name / Index
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
SkyWest, Inc .
100
84.50
123.72
77.43
75.49
31.71
NASDAQ Composite
100
97.16
132.81
192.47
235.15
158.65
NASDAQ Transportation Index
100
90.96
114.55
149.90
189.54
160.39
ITEM 6. [Reserved ]
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