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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000216085-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HVT"
cik: "0000216085"
company_name: "HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T11:04:40.206704+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Haverty Furniture reports annual meeting voting results; all director nominees elected

## Summary
- Class A stockholders elected all seven director nominees: Burdette, Dukes, Haverty Jr., Morhous, Palmer, Schiller, Trujillo; top vote-getter received 1,113,497 votes.
- Common stockholders elected Cote, Hough, and Smith as directors; Cote received 12,201,980 votes for.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 23,050,213 votes in favor, 490,477 against.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as auditor approved with 24,801,196 votes for, 166,399 against.
- Quorum achieved with 91.80% of Class A and 90.27% of common stock represented.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000216085-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HVT
- cik: 0000216085
- company_name: HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/216085/000021608525000007/0000216085-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/216085/000021608525000007/hvt8k51425.htm

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