Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001015328-25-000093
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Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
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ITEM 5.MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

The Company’s common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Stock Market under the symbol WTFC. 

Performance Graph

The following performance graph compares the five-year percentage change in the Company’s cumulative shareholder return on common stock compared with the cumulative total return on composites of (1) all Nasdaq Global Select Market stocks for United States companies (broad market index) and (2) all Nasdaq Global Select Market bank stocks (peer group index). Cumulative total return is computed by dividing the sum of the cumulative amount of dividends for the measurement period and the difference between the Company’s share price at the end and the beginning of the measurement period by the share price at the beginning of the measurement period. The Nasdaq Global Select Market for United States companies’ index comprises all domestic common shares traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and the Nasdaq Small-Cap Market. The Nasdaq Global Select Market bank stocks index comprises all banks traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and the Nasdaq Small-Cap Market.

This graph and other information furnished in the section titled “Performance Graph” under this Part II, Item 5 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K shall not be deemed to be “soliciting” materials or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C, or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, as amended.

201920202021202220232024Wintrust Financial Corporation100.00 88.23 133.32 125.94 141.06 193.02 Nasdaq — Total US100.00 121.27 152.67 122.55 154.93 192.86 Nasdaq — Bank Index100.00 87.20 119.74 99.06 109.02 146.80  

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Approximate Number of Equity Security Holders

As of February 6, 2025, there were approximately 2,069 shareholders of record of the Company’s common stock.

Dividends on Common Stock

The Company’s Board of Directors approved the first semi-annual dividend on the Company’s common stock in January 2000 and continued to approve a semi-annual dividend until quarterly dividends were approved starting in 2014. The