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Equity
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure
Share Repurchases
On May 31, 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted a resolution authorizing the repurchase of up to $1 billion of the Company’s common stock and 10.625% Series A Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”). The share repurchase authorization has no expiration date and may be modified, suspended, or terminated at any time without prior notice.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company entered into spot repurchase transactions through a broker to purchase 147,300 and 300,528 shares, respectively, of its common stock in the open market for cash totaling $25.3 million and $50.6 million, respectively, including excise taxes. Wesco funded the repurchases with available cash and borrowings under its accounts receivable securitization and revolving credit facilities. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company entered into spot repurchase transactions through a broker to purchase 1,679,176 and 2,022,323 shares, respectively, of its common stock in the open market for cash totaling $303.0 million and $353.5 million, respectively, including excise taxes. Wesco funded the repurchases with available cash and borrowings under its accounts receivable securitization and revolving credit facilities.
Series A Preferred Stock Redemption
On February 13, 2025, the Company's Board of Directors adopted a resolution authorizing the redemption of all outstanding shares of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock. As this authorization was separate from the May 31, 2022 share purchase authorization noted above, the redemption of Series A Preferred Stock did not impact the approximate dollar value of shares that may be repurchased under the earlier 2022 authorization.
As of June 22, 2025, the Company redeemed all 21,612 outstanding shares of its Series A Preferred Stock, and the related depositary shares, each representing 1/1,000th of one share of Series A Preferred Stock, at a redemption price of $25,000 per share, for a total payment of $540.3 million. The Company accrued $5.4 million in excise tax and recognized a $27.6 million gain from the redemption as income attributable to common stockholders. As described in Note 9, “Debt”, Wesco funded the redemption with the net proceeds from the March 2025 issuance of the 6.375% senior notes due 2033.
Dividends
The Company’s dividends on common stock are declared at the discretion of the Board of Directors. The following table is a summary of cash dividends declared and paid on the Company’s common stock for the six months ended June 30, 2025:
Date DeclaredRecord DatePayment Date
Amount Per Share
Dividend Payment
February 27, 2025
March 14, 2025
March 31, 2025
$0.454 $22.1 million
May 29, 2025
June 13, 2025
June 30, 2025
$0.454 $22.1 million
The following table is a summary of cash dividends declared and paid on the Company’s common stock for the six months ended June 30, 2024:
Date DeclaredRecord DatePayment Date
Amount Per Share
Dividend Payment
February 29, 2024
March 15, 2024
March 29, 2024
$0.413 $20.9 million
May 30, 2024
June 14, 2024
June 28, 2024
$0.413 $20.3 million
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company's Board of Directors also declared and the Company paid quarterly cash dividends totaling $12.9 million and $27.3 million, respectively, relating to its Series A Preferred Stock. For the three months ended June 30, 2025, the dividend rate per depositary share was prorated to $0.598, compared to the prior period dividend rates of $0.664, as a result of the redemption of the Series A Preferred Stock in June 2025. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company's Board of Directors declared and the Company paid quarterly cash dividends of $0.664 per depositary share relating to its Series A Preferred Stock totaling $14.4 million and $28.7 million, respectively.