STI 2018 Annual Report

26 Equity Securities Issuer purchases of equity securities during the year ended December 31, 2018 are presented in the following table: Common Stock 1, 2 Total Number of Shares Purchased Average Price Paid per Share Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs Approximate Dollar Value of Equity that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs at Period End (in millions) January 1 - 31 4,550,359 $68.03 4,550,359 $350 February 1 - 28 287,254 71.08 287,254 330 March 1 - 31 — — — 330 Total during first quarter of 2018 4,837,613 68.22 4,837,613 330 April 1 - 30 4,910,576 67.20 4,910,576 — May 1 - 31 — — — — June 1 - 30 — — — — Total during second quarter of 2018 4,910,576 67.20 4,910,576 — July 1 - 31 4,487,600 69.90 4,487,600 1,686 August 1 - 31 2,556,079 72.88 2,556,079 1,500 September 1 - 30 — — — 1,500 Total during third quarter of 2018 7,043,679 70.99 7,043,679 1,500 October 1 - 31 9,360,426 63.03 9,360,426 910 November 1 - 30 2,542,720 62.95 2,542,720 750 December 1 - 31 — — — 750 Total during fourth quarter of 2018 11,903,146 63.01 11,903,146 750 Total 2018 28,695,014 $66.56 28,695,014 $750 1 The principal market in which SunTrust common stock is traded is the NYSE (trading symbol “STI”). 2 During the year ended December 31, 2018, no shares of SunTrust common stock were surrendered by participants in SunTrust's employee stock option plans, where participants may pay the exercise price upon exercise of SunTrust stock options by surrendering shares of SunTrust common stock that the participant already owns. SunTrust considers any such shares surrendered by participants in SunTrust's employee stock option plans to be repurchased pursuant to the authority and terms of the applicable stock option plan rather than pursuant to publicly announced share repurchase programs. During the second quarter of 2018, the Company completed its authorized repurchases of common equity under the 2017 CCAR capital plan, which the Company initially announced on June 28, 2017 and which effectively expired on June 30, 2018. On June 28, 2018, the Company announced that the Federal Reserve had no objections to the repurchase of up to $2.0 billion of the Company's outstanding common stock to be completed between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019, as part of the Company's 2018 capital plan submitted in connection with the 2018 CCAR. During the second half of 2018, the Company repurchased $1.25 billion of its outstanding common stock at market value as part of this publicly announced 2018 capital plan. At December 31, 2018, the Company had $750 million of remaining common stock repurchase capacity available under its 2018 capital plan (reflected in the table above). At December 31, 2018, a total of 7,445 Series A and B warrants to purchase the Company's common stock were not exercised prior to their expiration dates of December 31, 2018 and November 14, 2018, respectively. In the first quarter of 2018, the Company redeemed all 4,500 issued and outstanding shares of its Series E Preferred Stock in accordance with the terms of the Series E Preferred Stock. The Company did not repurchase any shares of its Series APreferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, Series F Preferred Stock, Series G Preferred Stock, or Series H Preferred Stock during the year ended December 31, 2018, and at December 31, 2018, there was no unused Board authority to repurchase any shares of its Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, Series F Preferred Stock, Series G Preferred Stock, or Series H Preferred Stock. See Note 15, "Capital," to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item8 of this Form10-Kfor additional information regarding the Company's equity securities.