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
Market for our Class A Common Stock
Our Class A common stock commenced trading under the symbol “SBAC” on The NASDAQ National Market System on June 16, 1999. We trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, a segment of the NASDAQ Global Market.
As of February 17, 2026, there were 273 record holders of our Class A common stock.
Dividends
As a REIT, we are required to distribute annually at least 90% of our REIT taxable income after the utilization of any available NOLs (determined before the deduction for dividends paid and excluding any net capital gain). As of December 31, 2025, $343.8 million of the federal NOLs are attributes of the REIT. We may use these NOLs to offset our REIT taxable income, and thus any required distributions to shareholders may be reduced or eliminated until such time as our NOLs have been fully utilized or expired. The amount of future distributions will be determined, from time to time, by our Board of Directors to balance our goal of increasing long-term shareholder value and retaining sufficient cash to implement our current capital allocation policy, which prioritizes investment in quality assets through acquisitions to the extent there are opportunities that meet our return criteria and through the construction of new towers, then stock repurchases, and then cash dividend growth over time. In addition, in a high interest rate environment and when we believe interest rates may stay higher for longer, we believe that debt repayments, especially of our variable rate debt, may be an accretive use of our excess capital. The actual amount, timing, and frequency of future dividends, will be at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors and will be declared based upon various factors, many of which are beyond our control.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table presents information related to our repurchases of Class A common stock during the fourth quarter of 2025:
| Total | Total Number of Shares | Approximate Dollar Value | ||||||||
| Number | Average | Purchased as Part of | of Shares that May Yet Be | |||||||
| of Shares | Price Paid | Publicly Announced | Purchased Under the | |||||||
| Period | Purchased | Per Share | Plans or Programs (1) | Plans or Programs | ||||||
| 10/1/2025 - 10/31/2025 | 210,239 | $ | 191.21 | 210,239 | $ | 1,297,883,361 | ||||
| 11/1/2025 - 11/30/2025 | 187,258 | $ | 196.58 | 187,258 | $ | 1,261,071,713 | ||||
| 12/1/2025 - 12/31/2025 | 717,064 | $ | 189.58 | 717,064 | $ | 1,125,128,362 | ||||
| Total | 1,114,561 | $ | 191.07 | 1,114,561 | $ | 1,125,128,362 |
On April 27, 2025, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase plan authorizing us to repurchase, from time to time, up to $1.5 billion of our outstanding Class A common stock (the “Repurchase Plan”). The Repurchase Plan has no expiration and will continue until otherwise modified or terminated by our Board of Directors at any time in its sole discretion. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we repurchased 12 thousand shares of our Class A common stock for $2.2 million, at an average price per share of $188.66. Shares repurchased were retired. As of the date of this filing, we had $1.1 billion remaining under the current authorized share repurchase plan.
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