Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our common stock is traded on the NYSE under the symbol “BLDR”. The approximate number of stockholders of record of our common stock as of February 15, 2024, was 68.

We currently do not pay dividends. Any future determination relating to dividend policy will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on a number of factors, including restrictions in our debt instruments, as well as our future earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, prospects and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. Our debt agreements currently restrict our ability to pay dividends. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources” contained in Item 7 of this annual report on Form 10-K.

On December 18, 2023, the Company joined the S&P 500. As such, we have added the S&P 500 index to the comparison of 5-Year cumulative total returns in the graph below and have continued to present the Russell 2000 index in this Annual Report for 2023 as a transitional measure. The graph compares Builders FirstSource, Inc.’s cumulative 5-Year total shareholder return on common stock with the cumulative total returns of the S&P 500 index, Russell 2000 index, and the S&P 600 Building Products index. The graph tracks the performance of a $100 investment in our common stock and in each index (with the reinvestment of all dividends) from December 31, 2018, to December 31, 2023.

The stock price performance included in this graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

The information regarding securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans appears in our definitive proxy statement for our annual meeting of stockholders to be held on June 4, 2024, under the caption “Equity Compensation Plan Information,” which information is incorporated herein by reference.

Company Stock Repurchases

The following table provides information with respect to our purchases of Builders FirstSource, Inc. common stock during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023:

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In April 2023, the board of directors approved a share repurchase authorization in the amount of $1.0 billion.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, 1,585,410 shares were repurchased and retired pursuant to share repurchase plans authorized by our board of directors. The remaining 23,937 shares presented in the table above represent shares tendered in order to meet tax withholding requirements for restricted stock units vested. Share repurchases under the program may be made through a variety of methods, which may include open market purchases, block trades, accelerated share repurchases, trading plans in accordance with Rule 10b-5 or Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act, or any combination of such methods. The program does not obligate the Company to acquire any particular amount of its common stock, and the share repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at the Company’s discretion.