Stock and Debt Repurchases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Equity [Abstract]

Stock and Debt Repurchases

STOCK AND DEBT REPURCHASES:

In December 2017, CONSOL Energy’s Board of Directors approved a program to repurchase, from time to time, the Company's outstanding shares of common stock or its 11.00% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2025 (the “Second Lien Notes”). Since the program's inception, the Company's Board of Directors has subsequently amended the program several times. The most recent amendment occurred in April 2023, in which the aggregate limit of the Company's repurchase authority was raised to $1,000,000. The program terminates on December 31, 2024.

Under the terms of the program, CONSOL Energy is permitted to make repurchases in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions, accelerated repurchase programs or in structured share repurchase programs. CONSOL Energy is also authorized to enter into one or more 10b5-1 plans with respect to any of the repurchases. Any repurchases of common stock or notes are to be funded from available cash on hand or short-term borrowings. The program does not obligate CONSOL Energy to acquire any particular amount of its common stock or notes, and the program can be modified or suspended at any time at the Company’s discretion. The program is conducted in compliance with applicable legal requirements imposed by any credit agreement, receivables purchase agreement or indenture.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company did not make any open market repurchases of its Second Lien Notes in accordance with this program. During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company spent $26,387 to repurchase $25,000 and spent $17,092 to repurchase $18,040 of its Second Lien Notes, respectively, in accordance with this program. During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company repurchased and retired 5,224,016 and 124,454 shares of the Company's common stock at an average price of $75.69 and $64.18 per share, respectively. No shares of common stock were repurchased under this program during the year ended December 31, 2021