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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000101984-26-000061"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UEIC"
cik: "0000101984"
company_name: "UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC"
filed_at: "2026-05-21T20:10:35+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T22:13:22.513287+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# UEIC shareholders approve board declassification, equity plan increase at 2026 annual meeting

## Summary
- All four director nominees elected with >6M votes each; 1.6M broker non-votes.
- Board declassification approved 7.7M to 388k; directors elected annually starting 2027.
- 2018 equity plan amended: 375,000 additional shares authorized (7.4M for).
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved 5.6M to 2.3M; auditor Grant Thornton ratified.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000101984-26-000061
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UEIC
- cik: 0000101984
- company_name: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC
- filed_at: 2026-05-21T20:10:35+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101984/000010198426000061/0000101984-26-000061-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101984/000010198426000061/ueic-20260519.htm

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