---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000072162-24-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NL"
cik: "0000072162"
company_name: "NL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T22:06:13.799024+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NL Industries declares $0.08 quarterly dividend, reelects directors

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend of $0.08 per share payable June 25, 2024 to holders of record June 10, 2024.
- All seven director nominees elected with at least 89% of shares voted at annual meeting.
- Say-on-pay advisory resolution approved by 87.9% of shares voted.
- Annual meeting turnout: 94.3% of 48,833,484 eligible shares represented.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000072162-24-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NL
- cik: 0000072162
- company_name: NL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216224000019/0000072162-24-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216224000019/nl-20240516x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-24-000019
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-24-000019.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-24-000019.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: c6563b908bda3d78c0949d32aa0a922bf5910b32
  claim: NL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Say-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote Approving Executive Compensation at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 2: Say-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote Approving Executive Compensation ​ 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 2024 proxy statement. The resolution received the approval from 87.9% of the shares eligible to vote at the annual meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216224000019/0000072162-24-000019-index.htm
- claim_id: f4b2a9a79f98f6e454fedf2f2c284fd2a8a14e95
  claim: NL INDUSTRIES INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 1: Election of Director s ​ The registrant’s shareholders elected Ms. Loretta J. Feehan, Mr. John E. Harper, Mr. Kevin B. Kramer, Ms. Meredith W. Mendes, Mr. Cecil H. Moore, Jr., Ms. Courtney J. Riley and Mr. Michael S. Simmons as directors. Each director nominee received votes “For” his or her election from at least 89.0% of the shares eligible to vote at the annual meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216224000019/0000072162-24-000019-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.