---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000355811-25-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNTX"
cik: "0000355811"
company_name: "GENTEX CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T02:20:50.848052+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gentex shareholders elect all 9 director nominees, ratify auditor, approve executive compensation at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected; votes for ranged from ~172.2M to ~185.3M, with 16.9M broker non-votes each.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2025: 197.7M for, 5.0M against, 0.1M abstentions.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: 177.5M for, 8.1M against, 0.3M abstentions, 16.9M broker non-votes.
- No other proposals or material changes reported at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000355811-25-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNTX
- cik: 0000355811
- company_name: GENTEX CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000032/0000355811-25-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000032/gntx-20250515.htm

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