CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP

Chesapeake Utilities common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the ticker symbol CPK. As of February 16, 2024, we had 1,974 holders of record of our common stock. We declared quarterly cash dividends on our common stock totaling $2.305 per share in 2023 and $2.085 per share in 2022, and have paid a cash dividend to holders of our common stock for 63 consecutive years. Future dividend payments and amounts are at the discretion of the Board of Directors and will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, and other factors.

Indentures to our long-term debt contain various restrictions which limit our ability to pay dividends. Refer to Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data (see Note 12, Long-Term Debt, in the consolidated financial statements) for additional information.

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Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer

The following table sets forth information on purchases by us or on our behalf of shares of our common stock during the quarter ended December 31, 2023:

(1) In October 2023, we purchased 663 shares of common stock on the open market for the purpose of reinvesting the dividend on shares held in the Rabbi Trust accounts under the Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan. The Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan is discussed in detail in Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data (see Note 16, Employee Benefit Plans, in the consolidated financial statements).

(2) Except for the purpose described in footnote(1), we have no publicly announced plans or programs to repurchase our shares.

Information on certain of our equity compensation plans, for which shares of our common stock are authorized for issuance, is included in the section of our Proxy Statement captioned “Equity Compensation Plan Information” and is incorporated herein by reference.

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Common Stock Performance Graph

The stock performance graph and table below compares cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock during the five fiscal years ended December 31, 2023, with the cumulative total stockholder return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the cumulative total stockholder return of select peers, which include the following companies: Atmos Energy Corporation; Black Hills Corporation; New Jersey Resources Corporation; NiSource; Northwest Natural Gas Company; Northwestern Corporation; ONE Gas, Inc.; RGC Resources, Inc.; Spire, Inc.; and Unitil Corporation.

The comparison assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2018 in our common stock and in each of the foregoing indices and assumes reinvested dividends. The comparisons in the graph below are based on historical data and are not intended to forecast the possible future performance of our common stock.

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