---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000059255-23-000053"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VHI"
cik: "0000059255"
company_name: "VALHI INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2023-05-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T15:06:24.194079+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Valhi declares $0.08 quarterly dividend payable June 22; shareholders reelect all directors

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend of $0.08 per share, payable June 22, 2023 to holders of record June 5, 2023.
- Shareholders elected all seven director nominees with at least 94.2% of votes cast.
- Nonbinding say-on-pay resolution approved with 93.1% support.
- Annual advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 95.8% support.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000059255-23-000053
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VHI
- cik: 0000059255
- company_name: VALHI INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2023-05-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925523000053/0000059255-23-000053-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925523000053/vhl-20230525x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000059255-23-000053.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  VALHI INC /DE/ shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-25
  source text: The registrant’s stockholders elected Thomas E. Barry, Loretta J. Feehan, Terri L. Herrington, Kevin B. Kramer, W. Hayden McIlroy, Michael S. Simmons and Mary A. Tidlund as directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925523000053/0000059255-23-000053-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  VALHI INC /DE/ shareholders approved Say-When-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote on the Preferred Frequency of Executive Compensation Votes at the 2023-05-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-25
  source text: The registrant’s stockholders voted , on a nonbinding advisory basis, on the preferred frequency of every year, every other year or every third year for future advisory votes on the named executive officer compensation as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925523000053/0000059255-23-000053-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  VALHI INC /DE/ shareholders approved Say-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote Approving Executive Compensation at the 2023-05-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-25
  source text: The registrant’s stockholders adopted a resolution, on a nonbinding advisory basis, approving the compensation of the registrant’s named executive officers as described in the registrant’s 2023 proxy statement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925523000053/0000059255-23-000053-index.htm

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