Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
−Removed: Our Series A common stock, Series B common stock and Series C common stock are listed and traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) under the symbols “DISCA,” “DISCB” and “DISCK,” respectively.
−Removed: As of February 10, 2022, there were approximately 1,030, 57 and 1,525 record holders of our Series A common stock, Series B common stock and Series C common stock, respectively.
−Removed: These amounts do not include the number of shareholders whose shares are held of record by banks, brokerage houses or other institutions, but include each such institution as one shareholder.
−Removed: We have not paid any cash dividends on our Series A common stock, Series B common stock or Series C common stock, and we have no present intention to do so.
+Added: WBD common stock is listed and traded on Nasdaq under the symbol “WBD”.
+Added: As of February 9, 2023, there were approximately 715,364 record holders of WBD common stock.
+Added: This amount does not include the number of shareholders whose shares are held of record by banks, brokerage houses or other institutions, but includes each such institution as one shareholder.
+Added: We have not paid any cash dividends on WBD common stock and we have no present intention to do so.
Payment of cash dividends, if any, will be determined by our board of directors after consideration of our earnings, financial condition and other relevant factors such as our credit facility's restrictions on our ability to declare dividends in certain situations.
Stock Performance Graph
−Removed: The following graph sets forth the cumulative total shareholder return on our Series A common stock, Series B common stock and Series C common stock as compared with the cumulative total return of the companies listed in the Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index ("S&P 500 Index") and a peer group of companies (the "Peer Group").
−Removed: The Peer Group is comprised of The Walt Disney Company, ViacomCBS, Inc.
−Removed: Class B common stock, Fox Corporation Class A common stock and AMC Networks Inc.
+Added: The following graph shows a comparison of cumulative total shareholder return, calculated on a dividend-reinvested basis, for (a) WBD common stock (which began trading on April 11, 2022) and Discovery Series A common stock, Series B convertible common stock, and Series C common stock (which ceased trading on April 8, 2022), (b) the Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index (“S&P 500 Index”), (c) the Standard & Poor’s 500 Media and Entertainment Industry Group Index (“S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index”), and (d) a peer group of companies (the “Prior Peer Group”) for the five years ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The Prior Peer Group is comprised of The Walt Disney Company common stock, Paramount Global Class B common stock, Fox Corporation Class A common stock, and AMC Networks Inc.
Class A common stock.
−Removed: The graph assumes $100 originally invested on December 31, 2016 in our Series A common stock, Series B common stock and Series C common stock, the S&P 500 Index, and the stocks of the Peer Group, including reinvestment of dividends, for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
−Removed: Prepared by Zacks Investment Research, Inc.
+Added: The graph assumes $100 was invested in each of Discovery Series A common stock, Series B convertible common stock, and Series C common stock, the S&P 500 Index, the S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index, and the stocks of the Prior Peer Group on December 31, 2017, and that $100 was invested in WBD common stock on April 11, 2022, the date on which it began trading.
+Added: Note that historic stock price performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance .
+Added: The change from our Prior Peer Group to the S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index was made to better reflect our business subsequent to the Merger.
+Added: Peer group indices use beginning of period market capitalization weighting.
+Added: Copyright Standard and Poor’s, Inc.
Used with permission.
All rights reserved.
−Removed: Copyright 1980-2022.
−Removed: Copyright Standard and Poor’s, Inc.
+Added: Prepared by Zacks Investment Research, Inc.
Used with permission.
All rights reserved.
+Added: Copyright 1980-2023.
+Added: December 31, April 8, December 31,
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2022
+Added: WBD $ 100.00 $ 38.80
DISCA $ 100.00 $ 110.55 $ 146.30 $ 134.46 $ 105.19 $ 109.17 $ —
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S&P 500 $ 100.00 $ 95.62 $ 125.72 $ 148.85 $ 191.58 $ 181.13 $ 156.88
−Removed: Peer Group $ 100.00 $ 103.28 $ 103.43 $ 133.73 $ 159.05 $ 138.99
+Added: S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index $ 100.00 $ 90.25 $ 121.08 $ 159.27 $ 202.18 $ 170.27 $ 113.40
+Added: Prior Peer Group $ 100.00 $ 100.13 $ 129.45 $ 153.94 $ 134.50 $ 119.40 $ 77.93
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