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.
WBD common stock is listed and traded on Nasdaq under the symbol “WBD”.
As of February 8, 2024, there were approximately 689,822 record holders of WBD common stock. This amount does not include the number of shareholders whose shares are held of record by banks, brokerage houses or other institutions, but includes each such institution as one shareholder.
We have not paid any cash dividends on WBD common stock and we have no present intention to do so. Payment of cash dividends, if any, will be determined by our board of directors after consideration of our earnings, financial condition and other relevant factors such as our credit facility’s restrictions on our ability to declare dividends in certain situations.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph shows a comparison of cumulative total shareholder return, calculated on a dividend-reinvested basis, for (a) WBD common stock (which began trading on April 11, 2022) and Discovery Series A common stock, Series B convertible common stock, and Series C common stock (which ceased trading on April 8, 2022), (b) the Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index (“S&P 500 Index”), and (c) the Standard & Poor’s 500 Media and Entertainment Industry Group Index (“S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index”) for the five years ended December 31, 2023. The graph assumes $100 was invested in each of Discovery Series A common stock, Series B convertible common stock, and Series C common stock, the S&P 500 Index, and the S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index on December 31, 2018, and that $100 was invested in WBD common stock on April 11, 2022, the date on which it began trading. Note that historic stock price performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

Note: Peer group indices use beginning of period market capitalization weighting.
Note: Index Data: Copyright Standard and Poor’s, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Note: Prepared by Zacks Investment Research, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright 1980-2024.
| December 31, | April 11, | December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WBD | $ | 100.00 | $ | 38.26 | $ | 45.92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DISCA | $ | 100.00 | $ | 132.34 | $ | 121.63 | $ | 95.15 | $ | 98.75 | $ | — | $ | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DISCB | $ | 100.00 | $ | 108.24 | $ | 96.72 | $ | 88.81 | $ | 72.99 | $ | — | $ | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DISCK | $ | 100.00 | $ | 132.11 | $ | 113.48 | $ | 99.22 | $ | 105.81 | $ | — | $ | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 | $ | 100.00 | $ | 131.49 | $ | 155.68 | $ | 200.37 | $ | 186.24 | $ | 164.08 | $ | 207.21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S&P 500 Media & Entertainment Index | $ | 100.00 | $ | 134.15 | $ | 176.47 | $ | 224.01 | $ | 184.31 | $ | 125.65 | $ | 208.66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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