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

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

Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "EQT."

As of February 12, 2021, there were 1,985 shareholders of record of our common stock.

On March 26, 2020, we announced the suspension of our quarterly cash dividend on our common stock for purposes of accelerating cash flow to be used for our Deleveraging Plan. The amount and timing of dividends declared and paid by us, if any, are subject to the discretion of our Board of Directors and depends on business conditions, such as our results of operations and financial condition, strategic direction and other factors. Our Board of Directors have the discretion to change the annual dividend rate at any time for any reason.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

None.

Market Repurchases

We did not repurchase any equity securities registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, during the three months ended December 31, 2020.

Stock Performance Graph

The following graph compares the most recent cumulative five-year total return provided to shareholders of our common stock relative to the cumulative five-year total returns of the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index, the S&P MidCap 400 Index and two customized peer groups, the 2019 Self-Constructed Peer Group and 2020 Self-Constructed Peer Group, whose company composition is discussed in footnotes (a) and (b), respectively, below. Our common stock was included in the S&P 500 Index until the Separation and Distribution in 2018, following which our common stock was added to the S&P MidCap 400 Index. We have presented both indices for comparison in the following graph. An investment of $100, with reinvestment of all dividends, is assumed to have been made in our common stock, in the S&P 500 Index, the S&P MidCap 400 Index and in each of the peer groups on December 31, 2015 and its relative performance is tracked through December 31, 2020. Historical prices prior to the Separation and Distribution have been adjusted to reflect the value of the Separation and Distribution. The stock price performance shown in the graph below is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

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*$100 invested on 12/31/15 in stock, index, or peer group, including reinvestment of dividends.

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12/1512/1612/1712/1812/1912/20
EQT Corporation$100.00$125.69$109.60$67.06$39.01$45.74
S&P 500100.00111.96136.40130.42171.49203.04
S&P MidCap 400 Index100.00120.74140.35124.80157.49179.00
2019 Self-Constructed Peer Group (a)100.00148.63129.2477.9360.5749.24
2020 Self-Constructed Peer Group (b)100.00132.65108.3772.3649.6550.87

(a)The 2019 Self-Constructed Peer Group includes the following twelve companies: Antero Resources Corp., Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp., Cimarex Energy Co., CNX Resources Corp., Gulfport Energy Corp., Murphy Oil Corp., Ovintiv Inc. (formerly Encana Corp.), QEP Resources, Inc., Range Resources Corp., SM Energy Co. and Southwestern Energy Co. WPX Energy Inc. was included in the self-constructed peer group that served as the basis for the stock performance graph in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, but it has been excluded from the 2019 Self-Constructed Peer Group because it was acquired during 2020.

(b)The 2020 Self-Constructed Peer Group includes the following eight companies: Antero Resources Corp., Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp., CNX Resources Corp., Comstock Resources, Inc., Gulfport Energy Corp., Range Resources Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co. The 2020 Self-Constructed Peer Group is comprised of the companies included in our 2020 performance peer group, as set forth in our definitive proxy statement relating to our 2020 annual meeting of shareholders, and were selected by the Management Development and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors for purposes of evaluating our relative total shareholder return under the 2020 Incentive Performance Share Unit Program.

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