---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000072162-23-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NL"
cik: "0000072162"
company_name: "NL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-10-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T09:08:51.971465+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NL Industries declares $0.07 quarterly dividend, payable Dec 19, 2023

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share declared, unchanged from prior quarter.
- Payable on December 19, 2023 to shareholders of record December 1, 2023.
- Board adopted bylaw amendments enhancing shareholder nomination/proposal procedures; deadlines for 2024 annual meeting set: Jan 19, 2024.
- Capital stock description updated; as of Oct 25, 2023, 48,833,484 shares of common stock outstanding.
- No preferred shares issued; common stock carries one vote per share.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000072162-23-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NL
- cik: 0000072162
- company_name: NL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-10-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000029/0000072162-23-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000029/nl-20231026x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-23-000029.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NL INDUSTRIES INC: Amended and restated by-laws effective October 26, 2023, enhancing procedural mechanics for shareholder nominations and proposals, adjusting advance notice window, clarifying special meeting procedures, authorizing remote meetings, adding voting standard references, and making clerical updates (effective 2023-10-26).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-10-26
  source text: At its meeting on October 26, 2023, the registrant’s board of directors amended and restated the registrant’s by-laws effective October 26, 2023, to make changes as described below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216223000029/0000072162-23-000029-index.htm

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