Howard Lorber - Feb 24, 2024 Form 4 Insider Report for VECTOR GROUP LTD (VGR)

Signature
/s/ J. Bryant Kirkland III, Attorney-In-Fact
Stock symbol
VGR
Transactions as of
Feb 24, 2024
Transactions value $
-$1,957,032
Form type
4
Date filed
2/26/2024, 08:00 PM
Previous filing
Feb 15, 2024
Next filing
Mar 4, 2024

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction VGR Common Stock Award $0 +213K +7.45% $0.00 3.06M Feb 24, 2024 Direct F1
transaction VGR Common Stock Tax liability -$1.96M -175K -5.7% $11.20 2.89M Feb 24, 2024 Direct F2
holding VGR Common Stock 2.63M Feb 24, 2024 By: Lorber Alpha II Limited Partnership F3
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 The Reporting Person received performance-based restricted stock grants of 250,000, 300,000 and 300,000 shares, respectively, on February 24, 2021, March 1, 2022 and February 15, 2023. Each performance-based restricted stock grant vested, or will vest, in four installments on February 24 of each of the four calendar years subsequent to the grant date, based upon the Issuer achieving certain performance targets and the Reporting Person being continuously employed by Vector Group Ltd. The amount reported represents the third vesting of the 2021 award (62,500 shares), the second vesting of the 2022 award (75,000 shares) and the first vesting of the 2023 award (75,000 shares).
F2 Represents withholdings of shares as payment of the reporting person's tax liabilities incident to the vesting of (a) the 212,500 shares of performance-based restricted stock referenced in footnote 1 and (b) 212,500 shares of restricted stock, which were awarded to reporting person on February 24, 2021 (62,500 shares), March 1, 2022 (75,000 shares) and February 15, 2023 (75,000 shares) and were previously reported at the time of the grant. The shares withheld were valued at $11.2025 per share, which represented the average of the low ($11.105) and high ($11.30) stock prices of the Issuer's Common Stock on February 23, 2024, the last trading day before the date of vesting.
F3 Lorber Alpha II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is the general partner of Lorber Alpha II Limited Partnership, a Nevada limited partnership. The Reporting Person serves as the Managing Member of Lorber Alpha II LLC and has voting and dispositive power with respect to such shares.

Remarks:

Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney (previously filed as Exhibit 24 to Form 4 dated November 12, 2014.)