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 common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “L”.

The following graph compares annual total return of our Common Stock, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Index (“S&P 500 Index”) and our peer group set forth below (“Loews Peer Group”) for the five years ended December 31, 2019. The graph assumes that the value of the investment in our Common Stock, the S&P 500 Index and the Loews Peer Group was $100 on December 31, 2014 and that all dividends were reinvested.


	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Loews Common Stock	100.0	91.98	112.86	121.21	110.84	128.46
S&P 500 Index	100.0	101.38	113.51	138.29	132.23	173.86
Loews Peer Group (a)	100.0	94.68	109.90	113.20	106.21	130.57

(a)

The Loews Peer Group consists of the following companies that are industry competitors of our principal operating subsidiaries: Chubb Limited (name change from ACE Limited after it acquired The Chubb Corporation on January 15, 2016), W.R. Berkley Corporation, The Chubb Corporation (included through January 15, 2016 when it was acquired by ACE Limited), Energy Transfer Partners L.P. (included through October 18, 2018 when it merged with Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.), Valaris plc (name change from ENSCO plc), The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Noble Corporation plc, Spectra Energy Corp (included through February 24, 2017 when it was acquired by Enbridge Inc.), Transocean Ltd. and The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

The following table provides certain information as of December 31, 2019 with respect to our equity compensation plans under which our equity securities are authorized for issuance.


					Number of
					securities remaining
	Number of				available for future
	securities to be				issuance under
	issued upon exercise		Weighted average		equity compensation
	of outstanding		exercise price of		plans (excluding
	options, warrants		outstanding options,		securities reflected
Plan category	and rights		warrants and rights		in the first column)

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders (a)		3,025,294		$ 41.11		5,597,156
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders (b)		N/A		N/A		N/A

(a)

Reflects 2,469,756 outstanding stock appreciation rights awarded under the Loews Corporation 2000 Stock Option Plan, 531,427 outstanding unvested time-based and performance-based restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and 24,111 deferred vested time-based RSUs awarded under the Loews Corporation 2016 Incentive Compensation Plan. The weighted average exercise price does not take into account RSUs as they do not have an exercise price.

(b)	We do not have equity compensation plans that have not been approved by our shareholders.

Approximate Number of Equity Security Holders

As of February 3, 2020, we had approximately 700 holders of record of our common stock.

Common Stock Repurchases

During the fourth quarter of 2019, we purchased shares of our common stock as follows:


Period	(a) Total number of shares purchased		(b) Average price paid per share		(c) Total number of shares purchased as part of publicly announced plans or programs		(d) Maximum number of shares (or approximate dollar value) of shares that may yet be purchased under the plans or programs (in millions)

October 1, 2019 - October 31, 2019		2,565,169		$ 49.76		N/A		N/A

November 1, 2019 - November 30, 2019		2,161,832		50.38		N/A		N/A

December 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019		3,562,239		50.78		N/A		N/A

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