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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000091388-25-000046"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFD"
cik: "0000091388"
company_name: "SMITHFIELD FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T23:23:39.423452+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smithfield Foods 2025 Annual Meeting results: all director nominees elected; EY ratified; say-on-pay approved annually

## Summary
- Elected C. Shane Smith, Xiaoming Zhou, John A. Quelch as directors with >97% support.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2025 (388.8M for, 76.9K against).
- Non-binding advisory vote on FY2024 NEO compensation approved (386.5M for, 195.4K against).
- Advisory vote on frequency: every 1 year chosen (386.7M votes); company to hold annual say-on-pay until 2031.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000091388-25-000046
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFD
- cik: 0000091388
- company_name: SMITHFIELD FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138825000046/0000091388-25-000046-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138825000046/sfd-20250605.htm

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