secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     GENTEX CORP (GNTX)
CIK:        0000355811
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000355811-21-000031
Event type: dividend
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Gentex declares $0.12 quarterly dividend and authorizes repurchase of 25M shares
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- Quarterly cash dividend of $0.12 per share, payable Oct 21, 2021 to holders of record Oct 8, 2021.
- Board approved new share repurchase authorization of 25 million shares.
- Since 2015, company has repurchased ~86M shares and paid ~$720M in dividends.
- CEO cites capital allocation prioritizing reinvestment, M&A, consistent dividend, and repurchase.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581121000031/0000355811-21-000031-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581121000031/gntx-20210804.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355811-21-000031

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