Company: GHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000104889-25-000022
Chunk: 224

Company: Graham Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
Chunk 224
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Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

Market Information and Holders

The Company’s Class B Common Stock is traded on the NYSE under the symbol “GHC.” The Company’s Class A Common Stock is not publicly traded.

At January 31, 2025, there were 27 holders of record of the Company’s Class A Common Stock and 309 holders of record of the Company’s Class B Common Stock.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, the Company purchased shares of its Class B Common Stock as set forth in the following table:

PeriodTotal Number of Shares PurchasedAverage Price Paid  per Share(1)Total Number of Shares  Purchased as Part of  Publicly Announced Plan(2)Maximum Number of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plan(2)2024October 1 - 3118,223 $812.87 18,223 467,909 November 1 - 301,400 851.40 1,400 466,509 December 1 - 3149 875.93 49 466,460 Total19,672 $815.77 19,672 

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(1) Average price paid per share includes costs associated with repurchases, including commissions and excise taxes.

(2) On September 12, 2024, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the Company to purchase, on the open market or otherwise, up to 500,000 shares of its Class B Common Stock. This authorization includes shares that remained under the previous authorization. There is no expiration date for this authorization. Share purchases made during the quarter ended December 31, 2024 occurred through open market transactions or to enable employees to obtain the funds necessary to satisfy taxes incurred in connection with the vesting of restricted stock awards. Some of these shares were purchased pursuant to a 10b5-1 trading plan.

Performance Graph

The following graph is a comparison of the yearly percentage change in the Company’s cumulative total shareholder return with the cumulative total return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (S&P 500 Index) and a custom peer group index comprised of a composite group of education and television broadcasting companies. The S&P 500 Index is comprised of 500 U.S. companies in the industrial,