---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000072162-23-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NL"
cik: "0000072162"
company_name: "NL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T21:42:23.188030+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NL Industries declares $0.07 quarterly dividend, payable June 20

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share payable June 20, 2023 to holders of record June 5, 2023.
- Shareholders elected all seven director nominees with at least 86.9% of votes cast.
- Say-on-pay approved on nonbinding basis with 86.6% support; annual advisory vote frequency approved with 90.2%.
- NL Industries 2023 Non-Employee Director Stock Plan approved with 92.9% of shares voted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000072162-23-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NL
- cik: 0000072162
- company_name: NL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000023/0000072162-23-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000023/nl-20230518x8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-23-000023
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-23-000023.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-23-000023.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  NL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The registrant’s shareholders elected Ms. Loretta J. Feehan, Mr. John E. Harper, Ms. Meredith W. Mendes, Mr. Cecil H. Moore, Jr., Ms. Courtney J. Riley, Mr. Michael S. Simmons and Gen. Thomas P. Stafford (ret.) as directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000023/0000072162-23-000023-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  NL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Say-When-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote on the Preferred Frequency of Executive Compensation Votes at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: An annual vote on such named executive officer compensation received the vote of 90.2% of the shares eligible to vote at the annual meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000023/0000072162-23-000023-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  NL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Say-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote Approving Executive Compensation at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The registrant’s shareholders 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/72162/000007216223000023/0000072162-23-000023-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  NL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved 2023 Non-Employee Director Stock Plan at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The registrant’s shareholders approved the NL Industries, Inc. 2023 Non-Employee Director Stock Plan.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000023/0000072162-23-000023-index.htm

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