LSB Provides Update on NYSE Trading Halt and Stock Dividend Impact
As LSB Industries, Inc. (LSB or the Company), (NYSE: LXU), previously announced, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) halted trading on LSBs common stock on October 12, 2021 in order to address the impact on the stock price of the dividend paid by the Company on October 8, 2021 to shareholders of record on September 24, 2021 of 0.30 shares of LSB common stock for every share owned.
- As LSB Industries, Inc. (LSB or the Company), (NYSE: LXU), previously announced, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) halted trading on LSBs common stock on October 12, 2021 in order to address the impact on the stock price of the dividend paid by the Company on October 8, 2021 to shareholders of record on September 24, 2021 of 0.30 shares of LSB common stock for every share owned.
- Before trading began on the October 12, 2021 ex-dividend date, the NYSE communicated, via an NYSE Group Info Notice, that LSBs 0.3:1 common stock dividend applied to ALL approximately 79.4 million of the Companys shares of common stock that were outstanding prior to the dividend payment date.
- In actuality, the stock dividend was paid on only approximately 30.4 million of LSBs outstanding shares of common stock.
- Thus, confirming that the stock dividend only resulted in an approximate 11.5% increase in the number of shares of the Companys common stock outstanding on the dividend payment date of October 8, 2021.