Item 5. Market for the Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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Item 5. Market for the Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our Class A and Class B common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “BFA” and “BFB,” respectively. As of May 31, 2023, there were 2,380 holders of record of Class A common stock and 4,566 holders of record of Class B common stock. Because of overlapping ownership between classes, as of May 31, 2023, we had only 4,867 distinct common stockholders of record.
Stock Performance Graph
The graph below compares the cumulative total shareholder return of our Class B common stock for the last five fiscal years with the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Index, the Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Goods Index, the Dow Jones U.S. Food & Beverage Index, and the S&P 500 Consumer Staples (Sector) Index. The information presented assumes an initial investment of $100 on April 30, 2018, and that all dividends were reinvested. The graph shows the value that each of these investments would have had on April 30 in the years since 2018.
We began using the S&P 500 Consumer Staples (Sector) Index as a comparative index in this graph in fiscal 2023 to align with management’s use of this index for evaluating performance and determining certain components of executive compensation The Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Goods Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Food & Beverage Index will not be included in this graph in future filings.

| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Brown-Forman Corporation | $100 | $96 | $114 | $141 | $127 | $124 | ||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Total Return Index | $100 | $113 | $114 | $167 | $167 | $172 | ||||||||||||||
| Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Goods Index | $100 | $111 | $111 | $173 | $179 | $166 | ||||||||||||||
| Dow Jones U.S. Food & Beverage Index | $100 | $114 | $113 | $141 | $160 | $171 | ||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Consumer Staples (Sector) Index | $100 | $118 | $123 | $151 | $175 | $179 | ||||||||||||||
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