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 for Common Stock
The Company’s common stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “SSD.”
As of February 19, 2026, there were 87,312 holders of record of the Company’s common stock, although we believe that there are a significantly larger number of beneficial owners of our common stock.
Dividends
During 2025, the Company paid a total of $47.6 million in cash dividends. On January 28, 2026, the Company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.29 per share of common stock to be paid on April 23, 2026 to stockholders of record as of April 2, 2026. See “Note 20 — Subsequent Events” to the Company's consolidated financial statements. Future dividends, if there is any, will be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors, based on the Company’s future earnings, cash flows, financial condition and other factors deemed relevant by the Board of Directors. See “Item 7 — Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return on the Company’s common stock from December 31, 2020 through December 31, 2025, with the cumulative total return on the S&P 500 Index (a broad equity market index), the Dow Jones U.S. Building Materials & Fixtures Index (a published industry or line-of-business index) and a Peer Group Index over the same period (assuming the investment of $100 in the Company’s common stock and in each of the indices on December 31, 2020, and reinvestment of all dividends into additional shares of the same class of equity securities at the frequency with which dividends are paid on such securities during the applicable fiscal year). To provide an additional comparison to our performance, we included an index consisting of companies in the building products or construction materials industries that are most comparable to us in terms of size and nature of operations, which group has also been referenced by us in connection with setting our executive compensation. The Peer Group Index below consisted of A.O. Smith Corporation; AAON, Inc.; Advance Drainage Systems, Inc.; Allegion Plc; American Woodmark Corp.; Apogee Enterprises, Inc.; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Atkore, Inc.; Eagle Materials, Inc.; Gibraltar Industries, Inc.; James Hardie Industries Plc; Lousiana-Pacific Corporation; Patrick Industries, Inc.; Quanex Building Products Corp.; and Trex Company, Inc.
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Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
The table below shows the monthly repurchases of shares of the Company's common stock in the fourth quarter of 2025.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Period Total Number of Shares Purchased Average Price Paid per Share 1 Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs Approximate Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
(in millions)2
October 1 - October 31, 2025 57,040 $ 175.43 57,000 $ 20.0
November 1 - November 30, 2025 61,792 162.25 61,638 10.0
December 1 - December 31, 2025 59,207 $ 168.90 59,207 $ —
Total 178,039
Approximately 27 thousand shares of the Company's common stock were repurchased in 2025, in connection with the withholding of shares to cover payroll taxes on vesting of stock-based compensation awards vested and for retirement eligible employees who retired during 2025.
Approximately 0.7 million shares of the Company's common stock were repurchased in 2025 for a total amount of $120.0 million which authorization expired on December 31, 2025.
On October 23, 2025, the Board authorized the Company to repurchase an additional $20.0 million of shares of the Company's common stock through the end of the year, increasing the 2025 share repurchase authorization to $120.0 million, and authorized the Company to repurchase up to $150.0 million of shares of the Company's common stock, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026. This authorization replaces the previous share repurchase authorizations.
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