Common and Preferred Stock

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Equity [Abstract]

Common and Preferred Stock

Note 8 – Common and Preferred Stock

Dividends

In the first quarter of 2024, The Cigna Group declared quarterly cash dividends of $1.40 per share of the Company's common stock. In the first quarter of 2023, The Cigna Group declared quarterly cash dividends of $1.23 per share of the Company's common stock.

The following table provides details of the Company's dividend payments:

Record Date	Payment Date	Amount per Share	Total Amount Paid (in millions)
2024
March 6, 2024	March 21, 2024	$1.40	$401
2023
March 8, 2023	March 23, 2023	$1.23	$368

On April 24, 2024, the Board of Directors declared the second quarter cash dividend of $1.40 per share of The Cigna Group common stock to be paid on June 20, 2024 to shareholders of record on June 4, 2024. The Company currently intends to pay regular quarterly dividends, with future declarations subject to approval by its Board of Directors and the Board's determination that the declaration of dividends remains in the best interests of The Cigna Group and its shareholders. The decision of whether to pay future dividends and the amount of any such dividends will be based on the Company's financial position, results of operations, cash flows, capital requirements, the requirements of applicable law and any other factors the Board may deem relevant.

Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreements

In February 2024, as part of our share repurchase program, we entered into separate accelerated share repurchase agreements with Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America, N.A. (collectively, the "Counterparties") to repurchase $3.2 billion of common stock in aggregate. We remitted $3.2 billion to the Counterparties and received an initial delivery of approximately 7.6 million shares of our common stock on February 15, 2024, representing $2.6 billion of the total remitted. The final number of shares to be received under the ASR agreements will be determined based on the daily volume-weighted average share price ("VWAP") of our common stock over the term of the agreements, less a discount and subject to adjustments pursuant to the terms and conditions of the ASR agreements.

We recorded the payment to the Counterparties as a reduction to Total shareholders' equity, consisting of a $2.6 billion increase in Treasury stock, which reflects the value of the initial 7.6 million shares received, and a $640 million decrease in Additional paid-in capital, which reflects the value of the stock hold-back by the Counterparties pending final settlement of the ASR agreements. The $640 million recorded in Additional paid-in capital will be reclassified to Treasury stock upon settlement of the ASR agreements in the second quarter of 2024. The initial delivery of shares resulted in an immediate reduction of the outstanding shares used to calculate the weighted-average common shares outstanding for basic and diluted earnings per share.