---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000091388-26-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFD"
cik: "0000091388"
company_name: "SMITHFIELD FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2026-06-03T20:16:20+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T20:47:59.292150+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smithfield Foods shareholders elect directors, ratify auditor, approve executive compensation at 2026 annual meeting

## Summary
- Shareholders elected Wan Long, Hank Shenghua He, and Raymond A. Starling to the board with over 349 million votes each at the 2026 annual meeting.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for fiscal 2027 with 379,298,050 votes for, 424,737 against, and 7,967 abstentions.
- Approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of named executive officers for fiscal 2025 with 369,498,286 votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000091388-26-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFD
- cik: 0000091388
- company_name: SMITHFIELD FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2026-06-03T20:16:20+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138826000038/0000091388-26-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138826000038/sfd-20260602.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SMITHFIELD FOODS INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2026-06-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-02
  source text: 1. Proposal 1 - Election of Directors. Shareholders elected all three director nominees named in the 2026 Proxy Statement to the Company’s Board of Directors to serve until the Company’s 2029 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. Director Nominee For Withheld Broker Non-Votes Wan Long 349,402,219 24,185,188 6,143,347 Hank Shenghua He 352,339,183 21,248,224 6,143,347 Raymond A. Starling 368,046,086 5,541,321 6,143,347
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138826000038/0000091388-26-000038-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SMITHFIELD FOODS INC shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Approval of the Compensation of the Named Executive Officers at the 2026-06-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-02
  source text: 3. Proposal 3 - Advisory Vote on Approval of the Compensation of the Named Executive Officers. Shareholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers for fiscal year 2025. For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 369,498,286 4,053,422 35,699 6,143,347
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138826000038/0000091388-26-000038-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SMITHFIELD FOODS INC shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2026-06-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-02
  source text: 2. Proposal 2 - Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 3, 2027. For Against Abstain 379,298,050 424,737 7,967
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138826000038/0000091388-26-000038-index.htm

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